Books like Wolf of the Plains
When his father, a Mongol khan, is poisoned, eleven-year-old Temujin and his family are cast out of the tribe to die on the freezing steppe, and the boy who survives grows into the warlord who will unite the tribes as Genghis Khan.
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The Last Kingdom
Uhtred, the young heir to the Northumbrian fortress of Bebbanburg, is captured by Danish invaders in the ninth century and raised as one of them, until war forces him to choose between the Danes he loves and Alfred of Wessex, the last Saxon king standing.
The Winter King
Derfel, a Saxon-born warrior turned monk, looks back on fifth-century Britain, torn by Saxon invasion and quarrelling kings, and on Arthur, a bastard son of the high king, sworn to protect the infant heir Mordred and hold the land together.
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Near the end of the Second World War, a group of reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain village are left behind there when the villagers flee a plague.
The Killer Angels
The Battle of Gettysburg, from June 29 to July 3, 1863, told from inside the minds of Lee, Longstreet, Chamberlain, Buford and others as it unfolds into the turning point of the Civil War.
The Knights of the Cross
Around 1400, the young Polish knight Zbyszko of Bogdaniec vows to win three peacock plumes from the helmets of the Teutonic Knights for Danusia, and his oath draws him into the long war with the Order.
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Orphaned by an earthquake, a five-year-old Cro-Magnon girl is found by a band of Neanderthals and raised by their medicine woman, and as Ayla grows into a tall, questioning young woman among people who cannot understand her, she draws the hatred of the clan's future leader.
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
A novel based on the account of Pino Lella, a teenager in Milan during World War II who guides Jews over the Alps to safety and is then made the driver of a high-ranking Nazi general, a post that lets him spy for the Allies.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
A novel based on the account of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew made to tattoo identification numbers on prisoners at Auschwitz, who falls in love with one of them, Gita.
The Terminal List
Navy SEAL commander James Reece comes home from an ambush that wiped out his team in Afghanistan, then loses his wife and daughter the same night, and with a tumor in his head and nothing left to lose he works through a list of the people responsible.
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.
The Unvanquished
Bayard Sartoris and his friend Ringo, a slave boy his own age, grow up in Mississippi through the Civil War and Reconstruction, while Bayard's father, Colonel John Sartoris, rides with his raiders.
Dragon Seed
Ling Tan, a farmer in a village outside Nanking, and his family see the Japanese army arrive in 1937 and have to decide how to live, and resist, under occupation.