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Michael G. Thomas

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Michael G. Thomas is a British author of historical military fiction, science fiction, fantasy and horror based in Monmouthshire. He has academic qualifications in computing, Classical Studies and machine learning, with particular research interests in Greek and Byzantine military history. Thomas is also an experienced practitioner of historical European martial arts and co-founded the Academy of Historical Fencing with his brother, Nick S. Thomas. His practical study of longsword, sidesword, sabre and other historical weapons informs the combat and military detail in his fiction.

Thomas’s historical adventures range from the sixteenth century to the Vietnam War. The Gustav’s Greatswords books follow Landsknecht-style mercenaries through warfare in sixteenth-century Germany, while Blackwood of the Empire places a young British officer in the Anglo-Zulu War and the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Crawford’s Crusade concerns Royal Marines combating the nineteenth-century Atlantic slave trade, and his other military fiction includes First World War stories and the Black Ops Vietnam: ANZACS series. He is also known for the extensive Star Crusades universe and other military science-fiction sequences, which adapt historical tactics and campaign structures to futuristic warfare.

Periods and events

Anglo-Zulu War1879 Australian Operations in Phước Tuy Province1966–1972 CE Renaissance & Early Modern Europec. 1300–1789 CE Vietnam War1955–1975 CE Western Front1914–1918 CE

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Historical fiction series by Michael G. Thomas (2 series)

Blackwood of the Empire in Order

by Michael G. Thomas 6 books 4.3(4,490)

Blackwood of the Empire follows the fictional Welsh officer William Blackwood through two major campaigns of the late Victorian army. The first three novels place him in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, from the disordered opening invasion through Hlobane, Kambula and the final advance on Ulundi. The later…

Black Ops Vietnam: Anzacs in Order

by Michael G. Thomas 8 books 4.3(2,956)

Black Ops Vietnam: Anzacs follows Australian, New Zealand, American and South Vietnamese soldiers through the expanding ground war of 1966–1968. The sequence begins in Phước Tuy Province, where Australian battalions establish a permanent operational area and combine patrols, cordon-and-search missions, helicopter assaults and armoured support against Viet Cong…

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