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Real Name
Ken Hammer
About Me
I'm an avid history reader particularly from the fall of the Roman Empire to roughly the 1st crusade.
Location
Ann Arbor, Mi
Currently Reading
Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
The Silver Pigs: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery by Lindsey Davis
Heretic by Bernard Cornwell
Vagabond by Bernard Cornwell
The Archer's Tale by Bernard Cornwell
Llana of Gathol and John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Mastermind of Mars: A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Thuvia, Maid of Mars, and The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Swords of Mars: And Synthetic Men of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Hallowed Hunt (Curse of Chalion) by Global Dogan
Da Vinci code by Dan Brown
Half the World by Joe Abercrombie
Half a War by Joe Abercrombie
Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Nightfall by Robert Silverberg
War of the Gods by Poul Anderson
The Dancer from Atlantis by Poul Anderson
The Day of Their Return by Poul Anderson
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World by Caroline Susan Hull
Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman
The Mongols: From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane by W. B. Bartlett
Who's who in British History: A-H by Geoffrey Russell Richards Treasure
Domesday Book: A Complete Translation by G. H. Martin
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England by Dan Jones
What life was like when longships sailed: Vikings AD 800-1100 by Time-Life Books
DK Eyewitness Books: Viking by Susan Margeson
Foundation: Foundation and Empire ; Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Tower Lord by Anthony Ryan
Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe by Peter Heather
A Murderous Procession by Ariana Franklin
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Blood Song by Anthony Ryan
The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell
Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell
The World of the Vikings by Richard Andrew Hall
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Face the music : a life exposed by Paul Stanley
Life: Keith Richards by Keith Richards
The War On Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe by R. I. Moore
Lost Christianities by Bart D. Ehrman
Templars and Hospitallers as Professed Religious in the Holy Land by Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith
A Thief in the Night by David Chandler
Den of Thieves by David Chandler
Honor Among Thieves by David Chandler
A Memory of Light by Brandon Sanderson
Towers of Midnight by Brandon Sanderson
Inferno: A Novel by Dan Brown
The Gathering Storm by Brandon Sanderson
My Cross to Bear by Gregg Allman
Who I Am: A Memoir by Pete Townshend
Anglo-Saxon England by Frank Merry Stenton
Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan
Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan
A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
The End of Empire by Christopher Kelly
The Age of Charlemagne by Donald A. Bullough
Medieval Europe: A Short History by Judith Bennett
Medieval History and Civilization by Daniel D. McCarry
Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse by Jay Rubenstein
Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World: Equipment, Combat Skills and Tactics
The Medieval World at War by Matthew Bennett
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman F. Cantor
The History of the Knights Templars by Charles G. Addison
Who's Who in British History Beginnings to 1901
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by Christopher Tolkien
Harthacnut: The Last Danish King of England by Ian Howard
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan by Conn Iggulden
Khan: Empire of Silver: A Novel of the Khan Empire by Conn Iggulden
Genghis: Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Hal Iggulden
Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden
Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden
The Caliph's Splendor: Islam and the West in the Golden Age of Baghdad by Benson Bobrick
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I by Tracy Joanne Borman
Roger II and the Creation of the Kingdom of Sicily by Graham Loud
Last Argument of Kings (#3 First Law) by Joe Abercrombie
Before They Are Hanged (#2 First Law) by Joe Abercrombie
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
The Blade Itself (#1 First Law) by Joe Abercrombie
The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
Byzantium and the Crusades by Jonathan Harris
Raymond IV Count of Toulouse by Laurita Lyttleton Hill
The Viking Age: A Reader by R. Andrew McDonald
Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland: The Dynasty of Ívarr to AD 1014 by Clare Downham
William Rufus by Frank Barlow
William the Conqueror by David C. Douglas
Anglo Saxon Military Institutions On The Eve of the Norman Conquest by C Warren Hollister
The Godwins: The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty by Frank Barlow
Edward the Confessor by Frank Barlow
Mohammed, Charlemagne, and the Origins of Europe: The Pirenne Thesis in the Light of Archaeology by David Whitehouse
The Fighting Kings of Wessex: A Gallery of Portraits by G. P. Baker
Northern World: The History and Heritage of Northern Europe by David M. Wilson
After the Funeral: The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses by Edwin Murphy
The Vikings in Britain by H. R. Loyn
Cnut: England's Viking King by M. K. Lawson
The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane Smiley Robert Kellog
The Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki by Jesse L. Byock
Sword Song: The Battle for London by Bernard Cornwell
The Road to Rome: A Novel of the Forgotten Legion by Ben Kane
The Silver Eagle by Ben Kane
The Forgotten Legion by Ben Kane
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings by John Haywood
Eadric the Grasper by Jayden Woods
Godric the Kingslayer by Jayden Woods
The Crusades: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Tyerman
Harold and William: The Battle for England, A.D. 1064-1066 by Benton Patterson
A Traveller's Guide to Norman Britain by Michael Cyprien
The Normans and their Adversaries at War: Essays in Memory of C. Warren Hollister by Bernard S. Bachrach Richard P. Abels
Knights of Jerusalem: The Crusading Order of Hospitallers 1100-1565 by David Nicolle
First Crusade, A New History: The Roots of Conflict Between Christianity and Islam by Thomas S. Asbridge
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley
The Great Medieval Heretics: Five Centuries of Religious Dissent by Michael Frassetto
A History of the English Church and People by Leo Sherley-Price Translation
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich a History of Nazi Germany by William L Shrier
The Vikings by Else Roesdahl
The Normans by R. Allen Brown
Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 by Chris Wickham
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown
Robert Curthose: Duke of Normandy, c.1050-1134 by William M. Aird
Henry I: King of England and Duke of Normandy by Judith A. Green
Chronicles of Pern First Fall by Anne McCaffrey
All The Weyers Of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
The Norman Achievement by David C. Douglas
The Normans in European History by Charles Homer Haskins
The Kingdom of Acre - A History of the Crusades - Volume III by Steven Runciman
The Kingdom of Jerusalem - A History of the Crusades - Volume II by Steven Runciman
The First Crusade - A History of the Crusades -Volume I by Steven Runciman
The New Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas Madden
A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom by Mark Gregory Pegg
The Vikings: A History by Robert Ferguson
Europe After Rome : A New Cultural History 500-1000 by Julia Smith
The Persians by J. M. Cook
The Egyptians by Alan Gardiner
The Hittites by O. R. Gurney
The Maya by Norman Hammond
The Incas by Nigel Davies
Warriors of God : Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade by Jr. James Reston
God's War by Christopher Tyerman
The Monks of War by Desmond Seward
Charlemagne: Father of a Continent by Alessandro Barbero. Translated By Allan Cameron
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire by Adrian Goldsworthy
Following Hadrian by Elizabeth Speller
Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 1 by Edward Gibbon
Barbarians, Marauders, and Infidels: The Ways of Medieval Warfare by Antonio Santosuosso
Charlemagne by Derek A. Wilson
The Fourth Crusade And The Sack Of Constantinople by Jonathan Phillips
Teutonic Knights by William Urban
1215 The Year of the Magna Carta by John Gillingham
Wars of the Irish Kings: A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I by David W. McCullough
Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchy by Carolly Erickson
Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Harold II: The Doomed Saxon King: The Last Saxon King by Peter Rex
Historical Atlas of the Viking World by Angus Konstam
The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire Volume IV The Imperial Restoration by Thomas Hodgkin
The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire III - the Ostrogoths by Thomas Hodgkin
The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire I - the Visigothic Invasion by Thomas Hodgkin
The Barbarian Invasions Of The Roman Empire : Volume II The Huns And The Vandals by Thomas Hodgkin
Treasures of the Pharaohs: The Glories of Ancient Egypt by Joann Fletcher Delia Pemberton
The Secret History of the Knights Templar by Susie Hodge
The History and Conquests of Ancient Rome by Nigel Rodgers
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Royal Britain by Richard Wilson
King and Emperor by Harry Harrison
The Hammer and the Cross by Harry Harrison
One Kings Way by Harry Harrison
The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell
Lords Of The North by Bernard Cornwell
Russka by Edward Rutherfurd
The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell
The English Resistance by Peter Rex
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf
The Conspiracy by Hersey John