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Christian Cameron

Christian Cameron is an American-born historical novelist whose fiction is shaped by formal historical study, military experience and practical engagement with the material culture of the past. Born in Pittsburgh in 1962, he graduated from the University of Rochester with a degree in history before serving for twelve years in the United States Navy as an intelligence officer. His service included the First Gulf War and operations in Somalia. Cameron became a full-time writer in 2000 and is also an active historical reenactor and practitioner of medieval combat, experiences that inform his descriptions of weapons, armour, campaigning and battlefield conditions.

Cameron’s historical novels range from classical Greece to late medieval Europe. The Long War series follows Arimnestos of Plataea through the Ionian Revolt and the Persian Wars, while the Tyrant novels explore the Greeks, Scythians and successor struggles surrounding Alexander the Great. His Chivalry series chronicles the rise of the fourteenth-century soldier Sir William Gold through mercenary warfare across Europe, and the Tom Swan adventures follow a fifteenth-century spy and antiquities hunter through Venice, Constantinople, Rome and the eastern Mediterranean. His fiction combines large-scale military history with close attention to trade, craftsmanship, travel and the everyday experience of soldiers.

Periods and events

Medieval Venice Wars of the Diadochi Rise of the Ottoman Empire Italian Renaissance Hundred Years’ War in France Condottieri and Italian City-State Warfare Greco-Persian Wars Achaemenid Persian Empire Byzantine Empire Renaissance & Early Modern Europe Military Orders Wars of Alexander the Great Hellenistic Greece Wars of the Roses

Series

Series by Christian Cameron (8 series)

Chivalry in Order

by Christian Cameron 7 books 4.5

The Chivalry series follows William Gold from his beginnings as a London cook’s boy in the campaign of 1356 to a career as knight and professional captain. His path leads from Poitiers through the mercenary wars of Italy, crusading expeditions and the rivalries of France, Savoy, Venice, Genoa…

The Ill-Made Knight

4.4

The Long Sword

4.5

The Green Count

4.6

Sword of Justice

4.6

Hawkwood’s Sword

4.6

The Emperor’s Sword

4.6

The Captain of Venice

4.8

The Long War in Order

by Christian Cameron 7 books 4.6

The Long War follows Arimnestos of Plataea from the Ionian Revolt and slavery to the battles that decide the Persian invasions of Greece. Farmer, bronzesmith, hoplite, sailor and captain, he moves through Marathon, Salamis and Plataea while Greek cities struggle to cooperate against the Achaemenid Empire. The sequence…

Killer of Men

4.4

Marathon

4.6

Poseidon’s Spear

4.6

The Great King

4.6

Salamis

4.6

Rage of Ares

4.7

Treason of Sparta

4.6

Tyrant in Order

by Christian Cameron 5 books 4.6

The Tyrant series is set around the Black Sea during the conquests of Alexander the Great and the wars among his successors. It begins with the Athenian soldier Kineas and the Scythian leader Srayanka, then continues through their children Satyrus and Melitta as Macedonian generals compete to divide…

Tyrant: Storm of Arrows

4.5

Tyrant: Funeral Games

4.6

Tyrant: King of the Bosporus

4.6

Tyrant: Destroyer of Cities

4.7

Tyrant: Force of Kings

4.6

Tom Swan and the Siege of Belgrade in Order

by Christian Cameron 7 books 4.5

The second Tom Swan serial sends the merchant, scholar and intelligence agent towards Hungary as Mehmed II prepares to attack Belgrade. The fortress controls a principal route into central Europe, but the states that depend on its survival remain divided by dynastic interests, trade and distrust. Across seven…

Tom Swan and the Siege of Belgrade: Part One

4.2

Tom Swan and the Siege of Belgrade: Part Two

4.4

Tom Swan and the Siege of Belgrade: Part Three

4.6

Tom Swan and the Siege of Belgrade: Part Four

4.5

Tom Swan and the Siege of Belgrade: Part Five

4.5

Tom Swan and the Siege of Belgrade: Part Six

4.5

Tom Swan and the Siege of Belgrade: Part Seven

4.7

Tom Swan and the Last Spartans in Order

by Christian Cameron 4 books 4.5

The third Tom Swan adventure returns to the networks of collectors, bankers, soldiers and spies that connect Renaissance Italy with England and the Ottoman world. After Belgrade, Swan’s knowledge of classical antiquity is inseparable from the reputation he has acquired as an agent capable of surviving difficult missions.…

Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part One

4.4

Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Two

4.4

Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Four

4.5

Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Five

4.7

Venetian in Order

by Christian Cameron 2 books 4.5

The Venetian series follows English swordsman Richard Hughes and Philip de Chambray through the ceremonial splendour and concealed violence of early modern Venice. Opera, Carnevale, diplomacy and intellectual dissent create a public culture of invention while criminal organisations and foreign agents use the city’s masks and waterways for…

The Venetian Heretic

4.5

The French Ambassador

Commanders in Order

by Christian Cameron 2 books 4.4

The Commanders novels reconstruct the career of Philopoemen, the Achaean statesman and general later remembered as the last great Greek. The New Achilles approaches his rise through Alexanor, a former soldier turned healer at Epidaurus, while The Last Greek follows Philopoemen as he reforms the Achaean League’s army.…

The New Achilles

4.4

The Last Greek

4.5

Tom Swan and the Head of St George in Order

by Christian Cameron 6 books 4.3

The first Tom Swan serial begins in the closing years of the Hundred Years’ War and follows a young English merchant-scholar into Renaissance Italy and the eastern Mediterranean. Swan seeks manuscripts, relics and classical objects but repeatedly becomes useful to cardinals, merchants and rulers who need an adaptable…