Revolution War Fiction

In the seven years since he was stranded in 1836 in the body of William Barret Travis, Will Travers has managed to win Texas independence without the costly massacres he recalled from his own history and forge a peace treaty with the Comanche. As 1843 dawns he faces his greatest challenge yet. Mexico has renewed its war of reconquest. A new general is in charge of Mexico’s army, bringing new strategies to blunt Will’s modern tactics and superior weapons. To counter this new threat, thousands of men from towns and farms across the Republic of Texas volunteer to defend their hard-earned ...

In To Try Men's Souls, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen cast a new light on the year 1776 . Valley Forge picks up the narrative a year after Washington’s triumphant surprise attack on Trenton, and much has changed since then. It’s the winter of 1777, and Washington’s battered, demoralized army retreats from Philadelphia.

The United States is under siege, and the enemy has help from the White House! Scott Stiletto is one of the CIA's toughest assets, a veteran of numerous missions, an operative with compassion and ruthlessness in equal parts. His enemy is the New World Revolutionary Front, a terrorist organization seeking to overthrow the government of the United States and install their own puppet who is already very close to the president he wishes to replace. With freedom and justice hanging in the balance, Scott Stiletto will give the enemy a one-way ticket to hell!

It's a matter of life and death for one, for the other, revenge, land, a way of life. The American frontier, 1777. The true story of a teenager and his little brother, sons of a German immigrant settler, alone on the family farm in rural Virginia. Suddenly, the teenager is knocked off his feet by a musket ball. He looks up to see a devilishly painted face running towards him with a raised tomahawk. He runs for his life. His little brother fights like a wildcat. The two brothers are quickly overwhelmed and captured. The boys so impress the Indian raiding party with their courage and fighting...

Alternate history on an epic scale. Drew McGunn continues the acclaimed Lone Star Reloaded series with a high-stakes European gambit.He was a Ranger, forged on the battlefields of Mexico and East Texas. Europe's war was supposed to be observed, not survived. Colonel Jesse Running Creek—veteran commander, hero of the Republic — is dispatched to Paris on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War. His mission: navigate the treacherous currents of French diplomacy, secure a controversial arms deal, and report on the terrifying new face of European warfare, from deadly Prussian artillery to Texas's...

Curiosity gets the best of Elodie when she discovers an old, abandoned graveyard and a tombstone. She is drawn to that tombstone because it has her name on it, or the name of a distant relative she was named for. Until she tumbles back in time to 1779, right into the Revolutionary War. There are few choices for a woman alone in 1779, and so Elodie joins the Continental Army...as a man.

Winter, 1777. Valley Forge. The enemy isn’t just redcoats—it’s something far worse. While George Washington’s army struggles to survive the bitter cold and starvation, something ancient awakens in the woods. A massive, silent predator stalks the snow-covered forest, tearing through both Patriot and British forces alike. Some call it a devil. Others say it's a spirit of war. But Corbin, a seasoned tracker, knows the truth: it’s flesh and blood—and it’s hunting them all. As the Continental Army fights to stay alive, they face a new kind of war—one against a nightmare that ...

A master gunsmith. A war that changes everything. Can one young man forge his own destiny in the fires of revolution? From the author of the smash-hit bestselling Sunlit Silence Series of WWII in the Air comes Frank A. Mason’s award-winning Journeyman Chronicles, an unforgettable historical adventure set in the turbulent years of the American Revolution. Will Yelverton is just nineteen, a skilled gunsmith with dreams of setting up his own shop on the Tennessee frontier. But when war erupts in the colonies, his future shatters. Drafted as the armorer for the North Carolina Militia, Will ...

Part time travel, part crazy school, full-time fun! A fast-moving mystery adventure for children ages 8-14. When a mysterious package arrives in the mail with a tricorn hat and toy soldiers inside, fourteen-year-old Daniel, of course, tries on the hat. Now he's in for it because the hat won't come off and he must wear the hat to school! Daniel suddenly finds himself up against classroom bullies, Redcoats pounding on the schoolroom door, and his life turned upside down. Is his American history report really coming to life? How will Daniel and his friend Rebecca ever survive? This book ...

This is the fourth volume in the Forbes Road Series. A Conspiracy at the Forks of the Ohio! The ten years since Wend Eckert fled Pennsylvania at the order of the Cumberland County Sheriff have been good for him and his vivacious wife Peggy. On their farm near Winchester, Virginia, Wend’s gunsmithing trade has prospered and the couple have been welcomed into local society. But the year is now 1774, and everyone feels the cold shadow of growing tension with the King’s Government as the British Army occupies a defiant Boston to enforce the Intolerable Acts. British Governor Lord Dunmore ...

A historical fiction book set in New York during the late 18th century. "The Shadow of Betrayal" immerses you in the tumultuous world of 1780s New York, where the American Revolutionary War rages and loyalties shift like the tides. In this gripping historical fiction, betrayal, honor, and the intense struggles of soldiers come to life through unforgettable characters and heart-wrenching scenes. The novel opens with Captain Dick Page celebrating his 22nd birthday alongside Lieutenant Jack Edmonds in the dilapidated setting of Dirck van Ditteraick’s tavern. Their disheartened spirits ...

The acclaimed seven-book series chronicling the adventures of the generations of the Treegate family from the birth of the Revolutionary War through the War of 1812, ending at the Battle of New Orleans. Recommended by the Seton Home Study Guide for Grade 8 for American History. John Treegate's Musket (Book 1) An epic historical adventure that takes young readers from The Boston Massacre to the Battle of Bunker Hill. When young Peter Treegate is framed for murder while his father is away on business, Peter is forced to flee Boston on a smuggler's brig, sending him on a series of adventures ...

A handful of “Steampunk Junkies” from Bermuda, in 1898 challenged the ruthless empires of Spain and Germany in an undeclared war in Cuba. Behind the veils of the industrial revolution the masterminds of the German empire have created devastating weapons of destruction. The Spanish American War was on the horizon. Spain had amassed over one-hundred thousand troops and the mechanized German war machine were poised to annihilate the Americans when they land in Cuba. The “Steampunk Junkies” would have to confront and defeat the German war machine before Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough ...

Edward Rutherfurd has enthralled millions of people with his grand, sweeping historical sagas that tell the history of a famous place over multiple generations. Now, in China: The Novel, Rutherfurd takes listeners into the rich and fascinating milieu of the Middle Kingdom. The story begins in 1839, at the dawn of the First Opium War, and follows Chinese history through Mao's Cultural Revolution and up to the present day. Rutherfurd chronicles the rising and falling fortunes of members of Chinese, British, and American families, as they negotiate the tides of history.

Shaara's sequel to Rise to Rebellion is told from the perspective of some of the most memorable characters in American history. "An epic saga...told with emotion, energy, and historical precision," raves Publishers Weekly. "This is vivid and compelling historical fiction, but also a primer on leadership and the arts of war and diplomacy. Shaara reaches new heights here, with a narrative that's impossible to put down."

The Governess is a Fugitive from Justice! It's 1776 and Great Britain is astir. Regiments are recruiting and troop transports are assembling in every major seaport as the King's government prepares to send a massive army to subdue the growing revolution in its North American colonies. Mary Fraser, former “Daughter of the Regiment” in the 42nd Foot, has spent eight years living her dream of serving as governess on an estate in the Scottish Highlands. Then, one night in March, the unthinkable occurs. The new master of Bonniecrest Manor lies dead in a pool of blood on the floor of Mary's ...

Recently widowed, Rebecca Parcell is too busy struggling to maintain her farm in Morristown to give a fig who wins the War for Independence. But rumors are spreading in the winter of 1780 that she's a Loyalist sympathizer who betrayed her husband to the British-quite a tidy way to end her disastrous marriage, the village gossips whisper.

As the French revolution ravages the country, Desiree Clary is faced with the life-altering truth that the world she has known and loved is gone, and it’s fallen on her to save her family from the guillotine. A chance encounter with Napoleon Bonaparte, the ambitious and charismatic young military prodigy, provides her answer. When her beloved sister, Julie, marries his brother, Joseph, Desiree and Napoleon’s futures become irrevocably linked.

While the major fighting of the war moves to the south in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the desolate and fog-bound coast of New England. Establishing a garrison and naval base at Penobscot Bay, in the eastern province of Massachusetts that would become Maine, the Scots - the only British troops between Canada and New York - harry rebel privateers and give shelter to American loyalists....

After years of inconclusive war, the Franco-Spanish Empire is on the verge of collapse. The military is coming apart, the people are starving, the economy is on the brink . . . and yet, as long as the crown keeps tight control of its magicians, all hope of revolution and victory remains faint. The secret police are in control, rebel magicians are hunted down and eliminated before they can pose a threat and, worst of all, the government has found a new way to enhance magical power. The situation seems dire. But with a little help, there may be a chance.