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Looking for a new book to read...
« on: March 24, 2012, 05:57:24 am »
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Trying to find some good lesser-known Medieval Warfare books.

Read a lot of them and I can't really name them all, but don't suggest the GoT novels, been there done that.


Any ideas?
I also enjoy Medieval history books.


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Re: Looking for a new book to read...
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2012, 06:06:35 am »
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Re: Looking for a new book to read...
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2012, 06:16:35 am »
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Re: Looking for a new book to read...
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2012, 06:45:22 am »
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Ever heard of David Gemmell's books?
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Re: Looking for a new book to read...
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2012, 07:03:14 am »
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Tatham Mound by Piers Anthony is based off of early 16th century artifacts found in Florida Indian burial mounds and has quite a few sections on the Indian warfare of the time. It also has a section on De Soto's march through the country and how the Indians fared against the late period medieval armor of the time. More of a story telling than real history, it is nonetheless entertaining.
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Re: Looking for a new book to read...
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2012, 07:30:30 am »
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Sounds pretty interesting, and David Gemmell doesn't ring a bell. Any popular titles?
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Re: Looking for a new book to read...
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2012, 07:35:57 am »
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Sounds pretty interesting, and David Gemmell doesn't ring a bell. Any popular titles?

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Re: Looking for a new book to read...
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2012, 07:44:12 am »
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Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn

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Re: Looking for a new book to read...
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2012, 07:50:40 am »
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Twilight
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Re: Looking for a new book to read...
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2012, 08:20:31 am »
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A distance mirror by Barbra touchman..

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Re: Looking for a new book to read...
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2012, 10:16:19 am »
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Bernard Cornwell's serie The Saxon Stories is really good, but you probably know them. If not: it takes place in Britain around 1000 ad and tells about vikings

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Re: Looking for a new book to read...
« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2012, 10:35:50 am »
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Sapkowski's Reynevan series. Events take place during Hussite Wars.
You should read it anyway.
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Re: Looking for a new book to read...
« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2012, 10:36:57 am »
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The Knight Templar (Crusades trilogy) by Jan Guillou

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Re: Looking for a new book to read...
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2012, 11:40:21 am »
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If you're looking for fantasy, I can give you a lot.

If it's just medieval then the closest I can get to is this:

Davie Gemmell's last work was the Troy trilogy. Really good set of 3 books  - telling the tale of troy, obv, and there's some excellent characters in there. I believe Gemmell died whilst writing the 3rd book, and his wife finished it off.

Legend, also by Gemmell is a story about an old hero and his last battle (fought defending a multi-walled castle).

Also try Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E Feist and Janny Worts (i think?) if you like a book with lots of politics and back story.

I actually read that Feist/Worts trilogy before I read Magician and I guess I had a unique outlook when I finally read Magician as I knew a lot about those invading "aliens" having read Daughter of the Empire and the other 2 books countless times.

There's little to no magic in any of these books. Daughter of the empire has "Great ones" but you dont really see them much. It's more about the politics of the clans and Mara's fight just to survive (the heroine). Legend has none that I can think of, and Troy has no magic either.
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Re: Looking for a new book to read...
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2012, 06:58:28 pm »
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Dang. Lots of suggestions! Going to have to do some research on a few of them.


Hadn't heard of the Saxon series, sounds like it would be interesting as well as a few books RandomDude mentioned.
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