Early modern · Military & war · ~1500–1789
Looking for historical fiction in the military & war lane set during the Early modern (~1500–1789)? Early modern military & war historical fiction books collects historical novels that match both filters—Tudors, exploration, Reformation, revolutions brewing. Battles, home fronts, and wartime lives HisFic is a free historical fiction discovery app: open a full reading journey with the same era and story-type filters, then add region, themes, or audience. Shelves mix curated historical fiction picks with Open Library titles so even thin combinations still have books to explore.
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Alexandre Dumas
In 1625, Gascon cadet d’Artagnan rides to Paris to join Louis XIII’s musketeers and falls in with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—then into Cardinal Richelieu’s war of spies, diamonds, and honor. Dumas’s novel is early-modern historical adventure: duels, the queen’s honour, and the friendship behind “all for one, one for all.”
Early modern · Adventure & epic · Military & war
James Fenimore Cooper
In 1757, during the French and Indian War, scout Hawkeye and the Mohican warriors Chingachgook and Uncas guide Cora and Alice Munro through the forests around Fort William Henry as the siege, a massacre, and a pursuit up the lakes close in. James Fenimore Cooper’s novel is early-American historical adventure: wilderness warfare, a famous frontier friendship, and the Leatherstocking tale readers still know by title.
Early modern · Adventure & epic · Military & war
Charles Dickens
LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES · FICTION CLASSICS · CLASSICS · CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Victorian / Gilded Age · Military & war · Literary · Open Library
Charles Dickens
Fiction · History · Social life and customs · England, fiction
Regency / Napoleonic · Victorian / Gilded Age · Military & war · Literary · Open Library
Charles Dickens
War stories · Fiction · History · LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES
Military & war · Literary · Open Library
Charles Dickens
LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES · FICTION CLASSICS · CLASSICS · CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Military & war · Literary · Open Library
G. A. Henty
Fiction, historical, general · Great britain, fiction · Juvenile fiction · Fiction
Victorian / Gilded Age · Military & war · Adventure & epic · Open Library
Charles Dickens
LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES · FICTION CLASSICS · CLASSICS · CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Military & war · Literary · Open Library
Robert Louis Stevenson
LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES · FICTION CLASSICS · CLASSICS · CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Military & war · Literary · Open Library
Charles Dickens
Young men · fiction · ex-convicts · history
Victorian / Gilded Age · Military & war · Literary · Open Library
Charles Dickens
Texts · English fiction · LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES · FICTION CLASSICS
Military & war · Literary · Open Library
Charles Dickens
British · City and town life · Classic Literature · CLASSICS
Mystery · Military & war · Open Library
Charles Dickens
history · revolution 1789-1799 · fiction · LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES
Military & war · Literary · Open Library
Charles Dickens
LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES · FICTION CLASSICS · CLASSICS · CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Military & war · Literary · Open Library
Charles Dickens
LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES · FICTION CLASSICS · CLASSICS · CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Military & war · Literary · Open Library
Charles Dickens
Social life and customs · Fiction · History · LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES
Victorian / Gilded Age · Military & war · Literary · Open Library
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Charles Dickens
LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES · FICTION CLASSICS · CLASSICS · CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Military & war · Literary · Open Library
Charles Dickens
LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES · FICTION CLASSICS · CLASSICS · CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Military & war · Literary · Open Library
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