Stella Tillyard's four favorite historical novels

Stella Tillyard, author of the novel Tides of War, named her four favorite historical novels at The Daily Beast, including:War and Peaceby Leo TolstoyWell, I can’t not have it. Still the greatest novel ever written; still, for me, full of undiscovered treasures after five readings. Another characteristic of great historical novels is that they transcend not only their ostensible subject matter—in