The third book in his historical trilogy, A Caring Society: The New Deal, the Worker, and the Great Depression was less well received.

Originally, the series was supposed to be a purely historical, documentary-like trilogy called The Liberation of Europe 1943-45.

His current novel, "Whiskey River" (reviewed on page 50), is the first in a projected historical trilogy set in Prohibition-era Detroit, a time and a place of simpler, less equivocal crime philosophies.

He translated (1888) Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's historical trilogy Sigurd Slembe and (1895) Henrik Bernhard Jæger's biography of Henrik Ibsen from Norwegian.

This third and most ambitious volume of his historical trilogy articulates an alternative understanding of American education.

It is altogether lighter in tone than the previous historical trilogy.

"City of Sadness" was the first in a historical trilogy, which also included "The Puppetmaster" and "Good Men, Good Women."

Newman's first novels were a historical trilogy about Guinevere.

The Victorians, the book that opened A N Wilson's historical trilogy, showed this clever but contrary author at his best.

In 2008 he was awarded with the Greek State Prize for his historical trilogy The Palaeologian Dynasty.