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Old 11-10-2015, 05:06 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
If you like historical fiction at all:

Hornblower series by C S Forester
Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell
Poldark series by Winston Graham

Hornblower covers the (British) Royal Navy, 1794-1848
Sharpe covers the British Army, 1799-1821
Poldark covers the Cornish mining industry, 1783-1820

All three are excellent stories with a well researched historic background.
I just couldn't resist. I fought it but it won.... If you like Sharpe, have you read Allan Mallinson's Hervey - covers the British cavalry, 1808 or so - 1830?
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