Book Events for Steelwhisper
Events within the books in Steelwhisper's library
11th century
12th century BCE
17th century
1906
1976
1980s
1984
1987
1991
19th century
Act of Union
Afghan Wars
- Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army by Christie Blatchford (2001-)
Age of Sail
- H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian
- Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
- Post Captain by PATRICK O'BRIAN
AIDS epidemic
American Civil War
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War (The Politically Incorrect Guides) by H. W. Crocker III (1865)
American Revolution
Arab Revolt
Armistice Day - World War I
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- No Graves As Yet: A Novel (World War I) by Anne Perry (1914-06-28)
Battle of Agincourt
- Face of Battle by John Keegan (1415-10-25)
Battle of Aspern-Essling
- The Exploits of Baron de Marbot by Baron de Marbot (1809-05-22)
Battle of Austerlitz
- The Exploits of Baron de Marbot by Baron de Marbot (1805-12-02)
Battle of Balaclava
- Charge, The: The Real Reason Why the Light Brigade Was Lost by Mark Adkin (1854-10-25)
- Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle (1854-10-25)
- Hell Riders: The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade (John MacRae Books) by Terry Brighton (1854-10-25)
- The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham-Smith (1854-10-25)
Battle of Britain
- Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940)
Battle of Bussaco
- Adventures with the Connaught Rangers by William Grattan (1810-09-27)
Battle of El Bodon
- Adventures with the Connaught Rangers by William Grattan (1811-09-25)
Battle of Eylau
Battle of Friedland
- The Exploits of Baron de Marbot by Baron de Marbot (1807-06-14)
Battle of Fuentes d'Onoro
- Adventures with the Connaught Rangers by William Grattan (1811-05-05)
Battle of Inkerman
- Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle (1854-11-05)
Battle of Jena-Auerstedt
Battle of Mallavelly
Battle of Messines
Battle of Mons
- Riding the Retreat: Mons to the Marne 1914 Revisited by Richard Holmes (1914-08-23)
Battle of Passchendaele
- They Called It Passchendaele by Lyn Macdonald
- The First Casualty by Ben Elton (1917)
- A Very Unimportant Officer: Life and Death on the Somme and at Passchendaele by Captain Alexander Stewart (1917)
Battle of Ratisbond
- The Exploits of Baron de Marbot by Baron de Marbot (1809-04-23)
Battle of Salamanca
- Adventures with the Connaught Rangers by William Grattan (1812-07-22)
Battle of Sultanpettah Tope
Battle of Tannenberg
- The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman (1914)
Battle of the Marne
- The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman (1914)
- Riding the Retreat: Mons to the Marne 1914 Revisited by Richard Holmes (1914)
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
Battle of the Somme
- Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks
- Forgotten Voices of the Somme by Joshua Levine
- The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
- Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Very Unimportant Officer: Life and Death on the Somme and at Passchendaele by Captain Alexander Stewart
- Face of Battle by John Keegan (1916)
- Somme by Lyn Macdonald (1916)
- Somme Mud by Private E. P. F. Lynch (1916)
- Fighting the Great War: A Global History (Polity Short Introductions) by Michael S. Neiberg (1916-11-18)
- FIRST DAY ON THE SOMME, THE by Martin Middlebrook (1916-11-18)
- The Somme by Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley (1916-11-18)
- War Underground : The Tunnellers of the Great War by Alexander Barrie (1916-11-18)
Battle of Verdun
- Fighting the Great War: A Global History (Polity Short Introductions) by Michael S. Neiberg (1916-12-20)
- The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Sir Alistair Horne (1916-12-20)
Battle of Vimy Ridge
Battle of Wagram
- The Exploits of Baron de Marbot by Baron de Marbot (1809-07-06)
Battle of Waterloo
- Face of Battle by John Keegan (1815-06-18)
- Galloping at Everything by Ian Fletcher (1815-06-18)
- Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-18)
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke ([1815])
Bill for the Protection of Life in Ireland
The Blitz
- The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
- Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1941)
Bloody Sunday
British Association
- The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith (1847-1-1)
British Public Health Act
British Raj
- Lord of Endersley (Volume 1) by S.A. Meade (1947)
Butlerian Jihad
- Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
Caenozoic Era
Catholic Emancipation
Catholic Relief Act
- Bedlam: London and Madness by Catharine Arnold (1778)
Charge of the Light Brigade
- Charge, The: The Real Reason Why the Light Brigade Was Lost by Mark Adkin (1854-10-25)
- Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle (1854-10-25)
- Hell Riders: The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade (John MacRae Books) by Terry Brighton (1854-10-25)
- The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham-Smith (1854-10-25)
Classical Antiquity
COINTELPRO
Corn Laws
Crimean War
- Queen Victoria's Little Wars by Byron Farwell
- Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
- Charge, The: The Real Reason Why the Light Brigade Was Lost by Mark Adkin (1856)
- Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle (1856)
- The Crimean War: A History by Orlando Figes (1856)
- Hell Riders: The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade (John MacRae Books) by Terry Brighton (1856)
- The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham-Smith (1856)
Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher
Detroit Riot
- Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1967)
Dissolution of the Monasteries
Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII
Duchess of Richmond's ball
- Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray (1815-06-15)
Dunkirk Evacuation
- The Charioteer by Mary Renault (1940-06-04)
Easter Rising
- At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel by Jamie O'Neill (1916)
Edwardian Era
English Civil War
- As Meat Loves Salt (Harvest Original) by Maria McCann
- Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
- Transgressions: An M/M Romance by Erastes
- Wife to Mr. Milton: The Story of Marie Powell by Robert Graves
English Reformation
Establishment of Israel
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (1948)
Fall of France
- Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1940-06-22)
February Revolution
First Anglo-Afghan War
First Boer War
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
French Revolution
- WARS AGAINST NAPOLEON, THE: Debunking the Myth of the Napoleonic Wars by General Michel Franceschi
- The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy Orczy, Baroness (1789-1799)
Gallipoli Campaign
- A Rose for the Anzac Boys by Jackie French
- 1915 by Lyn Macdonald (1916-01-09)
- Beauty & the Sorrow by Peter Englund (1916-01-09)
- On the Front Line by Malcolm Brown (1916-01-09)
Georgian Era
Gilded Age
Gordon Riots
- Bedlam: London and Madness by Catharine Arnold (1780)
The Great Exhibition
Great Fire of London
- Bedlam: London and Madness by Catharine Arnold (1666)
- The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Pepys (1666)
- Restoration London by Liza Picard (1666)
Great Fire of Smyrna
- Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1922)
Great Plague of London
Great Smog of '52
- Dominion by C. J. Sansom (1952-12-05)
The Great Stink
Greco-Turkish War
- Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1919-1922)
Guy Fawkes Night
Holocaust
- Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
- The Kommandant's Mistress by Sherri Szeman
- Schadenfreude by XIX
- I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz by Gisella Perl
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (1945)
Home Children Immigration
Home Children Immigration to Australia
Indian Mutiny
Indian Rebellion of 1857
Indian Uprising of 1857
Industrial Revolution
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
- The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
Interbellum
- The Great Silence by Juliet Nicolson (1939)
- Our Age by Noel Annan (1939)
- Rites of Spring : The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins (1939)
Irish Arms Bill
Irish Famine of 1839
Irish Fever Bill
- The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith (1847-4-27)
Irish Poor Law Act
Irish Poor Law Extension Bill
Irish Potato Famine
Jazz Age
Labor Rate Act
Land War
Liverpool Building Act
Liverpool Sanitary Act
London Earthquake
- Bedlam: London and Madness by Catharine Arnold (1750-03-08)
Lunacy Act
- Bedlam: London and Madness by Catharine Arnold (1845)
Madhouses Act
- Bedlam: London and Madness by Catharine Arnold (1828)
Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
Matrimonial Clauses Act
- Bedlam: London and Madness by Catharine Arnold (1857)
Middle Ages
Napoleon's invasion of Russia
Napoleon's One Hundred Days
Napoleonic Wars
- Blucher and the Uprising of Prussia Against Napoleon: 1806-15 (Heroes of the Nations) by Ernest F. Henderson
- Charging Against Napoleon: Diaries & Letters of Three Hussars 1808-1815 by Eric Hunt
- From Corunna to Waterloo: The Letters and Journals of Two Napoleonic Hussars, 1801-1816 by Gareth Glover
- H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian
- In the Legions of Napoleon: The Memoirs of a Polish Officer in Spain and Russia, 1808-1813 by Heinrich von Brandt
- The Letters of Private Wheeler: 1809-1828 (Military Memoirs) by B. H. Liddell Hart
- Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
- Post Captain by PATRICK O'BRIAN
- Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
- WARS AGAINST NAPOLEON, THE: Debunking the Myth of the Napoleonic Wars by General Michel Franceschi
- Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray ( 1815)
- Adventures with the Connaught Rangers by William Grattan (1815)
- The Exploits of Baron de Marbot by Baron de Marbot (1815)
- Galloping at Everything by Ian Fletcher (1815)
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1815)
- Our Tempestuous Day: History of Regency England by Carolly Erickson (1815)
October Revolution
Pains and Penalties Bill
Peace of Amiens
- Post Captain by PATRICK O'BRIAN (1802-1803)
Penal Laws
Peninsular War
- Charging Against Napoleon: Diaries & Letters of Three Hussars 1808-1815 by Eric Hunt
- From Corunna to Waterloo: The Letters and Journals of Two Napoleonic Hussars, 1801-1816 by Gareth Glover
- Galloping at Everything by Ian Fletcher
- In the Legions of Napoleon: The Memoirs of a Polish Officer in Spain and Russia, 1808-1813 by Heinrich von Brandt
- The Letters of Private Wheeler: 1809-1828 (Military Memoirs) by B. H. Liddell Hart
- Adventures with the Connaught Rangers by William Grattan (1814)
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (1814)
Peterloo Massacre
- The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
- Our Tempestuous Day: History of Regency England by Carolly Erickson (1819)
plagues
- Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd (Bubonic Plague)
Pleistocene Epoch
Prehistoric Age
Prohibition in the United States
- Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (1929)
Raid on the Medway
Reformation
Regency Crisis of 1788
Reign of George III
- Ross Poldark (The Poldark Saga) by Winston Graham
- Sharpe's Tiger (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell
Reign of Henry VIII
- Dissolution (Shardlake Series) by Christopher Sansom (1547-01-28)
Reign of Terror
- The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy Orczy, Baroness (1793-1794)
Reign of Tipu Sultan
Restoration of the Monarchy
Retreat from Burgos
Roman Invasion/Occupation of Britain
Russian Revolution
- Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (1917)
Second Boer War
Second World War in Asia
Seizure of Veracruz
Sengoku period
Siege of Badajoz
Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo
- Adventures with the Connaught Rangers by William Grattan (1812-01-20)
Siege of Genoa
Siege of Leningrad
- Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (1944-01-27)
Siege of Sebastopol
- Charge, The: The Real Reason Why the Light Brigade Was Lost by Mark Adkin (1855)
- Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle (1855)
- Hell Riders: The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade (John MacRae Books) by Terry Brighton (1855)
- The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham-Smith (1855)
Siege of Seringapatam
Siege of Zaragoza
Soup Kitchen Act
South Asian tsunami
- On the Island by Tracey Garvis-Graves (2004)
Spanish Civil War
- While England Sleeps by David Leavitt (1939)
Spring Offensive
Summer
Superflu epidemic
Synod of Thurles
Third Battle of Ypres
Trojan War
United States occupation of Veracruz
Victorian Era
Vietnam War
- Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
- Close Quarters by Larry Heinemann
- Home Before Morning by Lynda Van Devanter
- If I Die in a Combat Zone : Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien
Viking Invasions
Vinegar Hill uprising
- Reforming Lord Ragsdale by Carla Kelly (1798), Castle Hill revolt (1803)
War of the Usurper
Wars of the Roses
Watergate Scandal
Women's Suffrage
World War I
- The Backwash of War (Dodo Press) by Ellen Newbold La Motte
- Between Now and Then by Adam Fitzroy
- Carry On: Letters in War Time by Coningsby Dawson
- The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
- Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War by Peter Barham
- The Ghost Road (William Abrahams) by Pat Barker
- The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
- The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers by Harry Bernstein
- Journey's End (Heinemann Plays) by R C Sherriff
- Letters From A Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends by Alan Bishop
- A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
- Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
- My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
- No Man's Land: Combat and Identity in World War 1 by Eric J. Leed
- Not So Quiet...: Stepdaughters of War (Women & Peace) by Helen Zenna Smith
- Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
- A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography (Echoes of War Series) by Guy Chapman
- Regeneration by Pat Barker
- The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War by James Carl Nelson
- A Rose for the Anzac Boys by Jackie French
- Roses of No Mans Land by Lyn Macdonald
- A Soldier's Diary by George Scott Atkinson
- The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
- A Subaltern's War; Being A Memoir Of The Great War From The Point Of View Of A Romantic Young Man, With Candid Accounts Of Two Particular Battles, ... They Occurred, And An Essay On Militarism by Charles Edmonds
- A Test of Wills (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries) by Charles Todd
- A Very Long Engagement: A Novel by Sébastien Japrisot
- With the armies of the tsar: A nurse at the Russian front, 1914-18 by Florence Farmborough
- 1914 by Lyn Macdonald (1918)
- 1915 by Lyn Macdonald (1918)
- 1918: A Very British Victory by Peter Hart (1918)
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1918)
- Beauty & the Sorrow by Peter Englund (1918)
- Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War 1914-18 by Peter Barton (1918)
- The British Soldier of the First World War (Shire Library) by Peter Doyle (1918)
- Death's Men: Soldiers of the Great War (Penguin History) by Denis Winter (1918)
- Decisions for War, 1914-1917 by Richard F. Hamilton (1918)
- Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women On the Western Front by Diane Atkinson (1918)
- Eye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World War I by John Ellis (1918)
- Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced (Pen & Sword Paperback) by Hugh Cecil (1918)
- Fighting the Great War: A Global History (Polity Short Introductions) by Michael S. Neiberg (1918)
- The First Casualty by Ben Elton (1918)
- FIRST DAY ON THE SOMME, THE by Martin Middlebrook (1918)
- Forgotten Voices of the Great War (Forgotten Voices/the Great War) by Max Arthur (1918)
- The Generation of 1914 by Robert Wohl (1918)
- Goodbye to All That (Penguin Modern Classics) by Robert Graves (1918)
- The Great Silence by Juliet Nicolson (1918)
- The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell (1918)
- The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman (1918)
- Mud, Blood and Poppycock: This Will Overturn Everything You Thought You Knew about Britain and The First World War (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Gordon Corrigan (1918)
- A Nurse at the Front by Ruth Cowen (1918)
- On the Front Line by Malcolm Brown (1918)
- The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Sir Alistair Horne (1918)
- A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence by John E. Mack (1918)
- Riding the Retreat: Mons to the Marne 1914 Revisited by Richard Holmes (1918)
- Rites of Spring : The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins (1918)
- Six Weeks: The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War by John Lewis-Stempel (1918)
- The Somme by Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley (1918)
- Somme by Lyn Macdonald (1918)
- Somme Mud by Private E. P. F. Lynch (1918)
- Testament of Youth (Penguin Classics) by Vera Brittain (1918)
- They Called It Passchendaele by Lyn Macdonald (1918)
- To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild (1918)
- To the Last Man: Spring 1918 by Lyn MacDonald (1918)
- Under Fire (Penguin Classics) by Henri Barbusse (1918)
- Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War by Neil Hanson (1918)
- Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914-1918 by Brian Gardner (1918)
- A Very Unimportant Officer: Life and Death on the Somme and at Passchendaele by Captain Alexander Stewart (1918)
- Vimy (Pen & Sword Military Classics) by Pierre Berton (1918)
- War the Infantry Knew 1914 1919 B by Dunn J C (1918)
- War Underground : The Tunnellers of the Great War by Alexander Barrie (1918)
- With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 (French Edition) by D. Stevenson (1918)
- Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy) by Ken Follett (1914 ∙ 1918)
- Bedlam: London and Madness by Catharine Arnold (1914-1918)
- Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front by Richard Holmes (1914-1918)
World War I, Western Front,
World War II
- Forgotten Voices of the Somme by Joshua Levine
- Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
- Into Deep Waters (Love is Always Write) by Kaje Harper
- Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
- Making History by Stephen Fry
- Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49 by Nella Last
- The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
- Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell ( 1945)
- Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (1945)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1945)
- The Charioteer by Mary Renault (1945)
- Colossus: The First Electronic Computer (Popular Science) by Jack Copeland (1945)
- Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (1945)
- The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer (1945)
- Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (1945)
- While England Sleeps by David Leavitt (1945)
World War II, Eastern Front
- The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer (1945-05-05)