Hello,
a lot of nice recommendations in this thread, sadly many not available as e-book or even out of print.
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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
Simon Scarrow writes historical novels mainly set in Roman times, but also the Napoleonic era.
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I have now read the first two of the eagle series and feel a little bit underwhelmed. The main characters started rather lifeless and did not improve, fighting was less than thrilling. (A reviewer on Amazon aptly labels the series "pedestrian";-) Just started with Iggulden's Emperor, which seemed to hit of much better.
For an adventure book the settings is more the difficult to right than the Napoleonic wars, it is much harder to get a reader to care for Romulan soldiers crucifying barbarians or selling them into slavery.
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To throw in something completely different: Stephen Coonts' Flight of the Intruder somehow seems to fit in here. It is not far-away-once-upon-a-time-history but dated enough to have some distance.