Take a trip through history with 10 gems from our catalog. Henry Kenton is traveling from Kentucky to South Carolina on the eve of the American civil war. He is anxious to complete a secret mission in Joseph A. Altsheler’s novel The Guns of Bull Run, the first book in a series. 124 years earlier, the French Revolution disposed of Marie Antoinette and her Son, Louis Charles. The French Revolution ended in the Reign of Terror, which is the backdrop to The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel over his nemesis Chauvelin.