Historical
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Douglas Kennedy [Kennedy, Douglas]

EIGHT AS SOON AS Petra finished talking, I stood up and took her in my arms. But her reaction to this embrace, this attempt to comfort her, was disconcerting. She ...
( Category: Psychological March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Richard Hughes

III The promise he had given seemed simple enough to keep, to a child of ten. But the trouble was that Dick did not remain always a child of ten: ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1951-12-31 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

When Louise had left her, Catherine sent for the Duke of Guise and the Cardinal of Lorraine. She was pleased with herself. She had lulled the fears of these men ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1997-12-31 | Author:Boris Akunin [Akunin, Boris]

This was already progress. Inside the envelope there were sheets of paper divided into columns and squares containing English writing in the slanting hand now so familiar to Erast Fandorin. ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rabindranath Tagore

* * * VISION I When I was a very young wife, I gave birth to a dead child, and came near to death myself. I recovered strength very slowly, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-22 | Author:Iain Banks [Banks, Iain]

'I say, did you know that you can count up to over one thousand just using your fingers?' 'Really?' 'Yes. Can you guess how? I bet you can't.' 'You'd…use a ...
( Category: Technothrillers March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-31 | Author:Rabindranath Tagore [Tagore, Rabindranath]

THE BABUS OF NAYANJORE I Once upon a time the Babus of Nayanjore were famous landholders. They were noted for their princely extravagance. They would tear off the rough border ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Robert Service

18 Hopes Unsettled (1961–1964) Khrushchëv still believed that history was on the side of communism. His confidence was infectious and attracted a lot of lower-echelon party functionaries and ambitious youngsters ...
( Category: Russia March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:JOHN KEEGAN (edt) [KEEGAN, JOHN]

measure to allow conscription. King liked Kiev. As the High Command debated the to play the intermediary between next step, time ran out for the men in Kiev President ROOSEVELT ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-02-23 | Author:Brokaw, Tom [Brokaw, Tom]

LOVE, MARRIAGE, AND COMMITMENT The World War II generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility, and the marriage vow: “For better or for worse . . ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-29 | Author:G. J. Meyer [Meyer, G. J.]

Background * * * OLD WOUNDS UNHEALED JULIUS CAESAR WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO LEARN that a great battle took place at Verdun two millennia after his conquest of Gaul. ...
( Category: World War I March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-30 | Author:Ben Macintyre [Macintyre, Ben]

( Category: World March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1961-01-01 | Author:Ernle Bradford [Bradford, Ernle]

Chapter 17 The fall of St Elmo Through the narrowstreets of Birgu, the Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem went in solemn procession to the Conventual ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Norman Davies

The Commonwealth’s treatment of Ireland was infinitely more ‘thorough’ than anything that Strafford might have dreamed of. It cemented the Protestant Ascendancy that was to last until the twentieth century. ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-29 | Author:Chris Peers [Peers, Chris]

Offa’s Pedigree So who was this Offa? The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle follows its usual practice with prominent rulers by breaking off its narrative to insert a long genealogy. Offa’s father, we ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )