Books like River God
Taita, a gifted eunuch slave in ancient Egypt, tells of the love between his young mistress Lostris and the soldier Tanus, which her powerful father forbids, as Egypt is torn by civil war and threatened by invaders with horses and chariots.
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Quo Vadis
In Nero's Rome, the young patrician soldier Marcus Vinicius falls for Lygia, a hostage princess who has secretly become a Christian, as the city moves toward fire and persecution.
With Fire and Sword
In 1647, as the Cossack rising of Bohdan Khmelnytsky breaks over the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the young knight Jan Skrzetuski falls for Helena and has to fight his way across a burning Ukraine to keep her.
The World and All That It Holds
Rafael Pinto, a Sephardic pharmacist from Sarajevo, is conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914 and falls in love with a fellow soldier, Osman, and the war and the century carry them across half the world.
Doctor Zhivago
A poet and a woman torn between him and a Bolshevik commander live through the Russian Revolution and Civil War, and the landscape of Russia becomes a character.
The Far Pavilions
An English officer raised as a Hindu returns to India and falls in love across the divide of empire, religion, and the Afghan wars.
Outlander
A WWII nurse touches a standing stone in the Scottish Highlands and is hurled back to 1743, into the arms of a Highland warrior and the Jacobite rising.
Half of a Yellow Sun
In 1960s Nigeria, Ugwu, a village boy, becomes houseboy to Odenigbo, a radical lecturer in Nsukka whose lover Olanna is the daughter of a rich Lagos family, and the Biafran war is coming.
And Quiet Flows the Don
Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack in a village on the Don, falls for his married neighbour Aksinia before the First World War and the Revolution tear his world apart.
Fall of Giants
On the day of George V's coronation in 1911, thirteen-year-old Billy Williams goes down a Welsh coal mine for the first time, and his family's story winds with those of an English earl, a German diplomat, two Russian brothers and an American idealist through the First World War and the Russian Revolution.
Birdsong
In 1910 Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman sent to Amiens to learn the textile trade, falls in love with the unhappy wife of his host; six years later he is an officer in the trenches a few miles away.
The March
Sherman's March to the Sea becomes a panoramic novel of the Civil War's end, seen through the eyes of soldiers, slaves, and civilians swept up in the destruction.
The Eighth Life
Six generations of a Georgian family unfold across a century of Soviet violence, chocolate, and love, addressed by a great-aunt to her niece.