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1919 - the Great War is over. But shell-shocked Harry Oliver, MC carries it with him wherever he goes... This novel, set in the chalk downland of southern England in the immediate aftermath of the war, explores themes of courage, the physical and psychological wounds of war, healing, love and redemption. Filled with period detail, an evocative sense of time and place, and rising suspense, this is more than a love story - it is a work of deeply compassionate insight and feeling. http://www.alisonjames.net/novel_buttercross/index.html
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Maia and her step-brother Cilo were raised in an opulent villa in the Seine Valley, by their vile step-mother. Cilo enlisted in the army in Britannia at fifteen.
Lucius, Luc, is commander of an auxiliary cavalry unit of Legio XX, Valeria Victrix. The son of a Caledonian mercenary who joined Rome, he and his four brothers are renowned soldiers of great ability and bravery. At 25 he has served ten years, is looking at another fifteen, and has had enough of killing. Exhausted and battle fatigued after the brutal AD77 Cambrian campaign, he has been weighing up his chances of survival as a deserter.
When Maia is married off to her stepbrother, she is once again abandoned when he returns to Britannia. Seizing her chance to escape, she joins an exclusive group of travelling priestesses on their way to Britannia. But they can only take her some of the way, and she finds herself moving through a complex web of lies and deceptions, where everyone she meets has a separate agenda.
If she can only trust Lucius, he can take her to her husband. Everything she knows about the world will change, if she can survive the journey. http://letitiacoynebritannia.weebly.com/
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Two anti-war students move to Oceanside, California during the Vietnam War to help organize anti-war Marines but their experiences with the soldiers change them more. http://www.scribd.com/doc/15663662/Microsoft-Word-Bring-the-War-Homeebook
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Best of Friends tells the story of a friendship strained by shattering events, yet stronger than life itself. In the decades before the Civil War, U.S. Army officers trained at West Point and fought together in Mexico and throughout the west – forming bonds of lifelong affection. In 1861, these friendships were shattered as loyal friends now found it their duty to turn their wits and their cannon on one another. This searching, multi-layered and poignant novel examines one such friendship. Spanning sixty years, it sweeps the reader up into a complete, richly-imagined private and public world: a world where honor, loyalty and love may still triumph over the most tragic adversity. http://www.alisonjames.net/novel_bestoffriends/index.html
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Free, full-length Norse Saga in modern English. Based on the earliest-known history of Norway. Thoroughly researched (the author is half Norwegian and has lived in the places here described), and with a fast moving, violent and unpredictable plot, Berserk Revenge is the best Viking-themed story written since 1399 A.D. http://www.scribd.com/doc/36021424/Berserk-Revenge-A-Norse-Saga
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