Age: Historical Fiction

Historical Fiction genre

The King’s Swift Rider: A Novel On Robert The Bruce

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Unwilling to fight but feeling a sense of duty, sixteen-year-old Martin joins Scotland’s rebel army as a swift rider and master of espionage for the leader, Robert the Bruce.

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In Flanders Fields : The Story Of The Poem By John Mccrae

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Presents the context for the writing of the famous poem by the Canadian medical officer, John McCrae, who attended injured soldiers in Flanders during the First World War.

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Secrets In The Fire

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

As a victim of a landmine and a child of war-torn Mozambique, Sophia turns to a village elder for advice and soon finds ways to cope with her difficult circumstances in order to grow into a person with great strength and determination.

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Silver Threads

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Anna and Ivan, two young newlyweds, escape poverty and hardship in Ukraine to start a new life on the Canadian frontier. As they struggle to establish themselves, WWI breaks out and Ivan is taken prisoned as an enemy.

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Adeline’s Dream Adeline’s Dream

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

When Linna, 12, moves from Germany with her mother and brother to Canada where her father has been working, she fears that she will be forced to give up her dream of becoming an opera singer.

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A Dirty Deed

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

In 1952 Alberta, Canada, best friends Will and Arthur witness a young Indian being hunted down by old man Howe. When they investigate, they discover secrets hidden for generations. A companion to Across the Steel River.

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Battle Scars

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

This sequel to The Flags of War continues the adventures of two cousins, Walt and Nate McGregor, and of Sunday, the former slave on Nate’s father’s plantation. They have survived the carnage at Shiloh.

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Four Steps To Death

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A million people were killed in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, one of the worst battles in history, and the intertwined stories of three people, each told in third person, offer a human-scale account of the cataclysm.

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Christmas in the Trenches

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A World War I veteran tells his grandson of his experiences in 1914, when British and German soldiers declared a truce from fighting to celebrate Christmas together.

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The Root Cellar

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt’s root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier.

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