Henty G A : 356 books

It was a grand success. Every one said so; and moreover, every one who witnessed the experiment predicted that the Mermaid would revolutionize naval warfare as completely as did the world-famous Monitor. Professor Rivers, who had devoted the best years of his life to perfecting his wonderful invention,...

The story of a young man and his friends as they live through part of the Boer / British war in South Africa.

After spending time at a number of schools around Europe for several years, teenage brothers Percy and Ralph Barclay have settled down in France with their family. But when the Franco-Prussian War breaks out, the Barclay family's hard-won stability is shattered, and the brave brothers join the war effort as spies.

The British waged three costly wars against the Burmese Empire during the 19th century. The costly wars took the lives of over 15,000 British and Indian soldiers. When the final war ended in 1885, Great Britain controlled all of northeastern India and Burma. In this book a young man by the name of...

Unusual tale of a young woman who meets soemone who thinks he knows her, but does not. Then, she finally realizes that there is someone in town who looks just like her. She sets out to find this person, and there is where the adventure begins, alnong with the mquestion: Who IS this girl?

The scene of this story is laid in France during latter part of the Thirty Years' War---the time of Richelieu, of Mazarin and Anne of Austria. The hero, Hector Campbell, is the orphaned son of a Scottish officer in the French Army.

Get ready for page-turning excitement in The Young Colonists, an action-adventure novel set during the colonial rule of South Africa. Hero Dick Humphries is called upon to serve in the effort to achieve harmony with the native inhabitants of the region. Fans of historical adventure will relish this gripping, richly detailed account.

A historical adventure novel set during the time of the Great Fire of London.

Set in the fourteenth century, during the Scottish fight for independence under William Wallace and Robert Bruce, In Freedom's Cause (1885) combines history and adventure in the rousing tale of young Archie Forbes's coming of age on the battlefields of Scotland, culminating in the great battle of Bannockburn.

Set in the mid-eighteenth century, With Wolfe in Canada follows young hero James Walsham as he leaves his native England and travels to Canada to fight alongside famed commander Major General James Wolfe in his campaigns against the French forces in and around Quebec.

A series of battles in Wales, England, and Scotland during wars for independence. This is a very detailed historical novel of the times and places. Great reading.

As the political and religious upheaval that nearly destroyed England in the seventeenth century began to be resolved, the country was hit with several new challenges, including a devastating fire that ravaged much of London and one of the most severe outbreaks of the plague in history. In this chaotic environment, young protagonist Cyril Shenstone fights to support himself.

My Dear Lads: Thanks to the care with which the Egyptians depicted upon the walls of their sepulchers the minutest doings of their daily life, to the dryness of the climate which has preserved these records uninjured for so many thousand years, and to the indefatigable labor of modern investigators,...