Thread: Need historical fiction recommendations
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Old 11-23-2010, 06:00 PM   #22
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The Aubrey-Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian. Basically wooden ships of war during the Napoleonic wars. Very very good historical fiction.

Also, the I Claudius novels by Robert Graves (in fact, any historical novel by Robert Graves).
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