Historical
epub |eng | 2006-11-01 | Author:Ussher, James [Ussher, James]

3980. Dorylaus, with his eighty thousand (Plutarch and Appian) or with seventy thousand (Eutropius and Orosius) choice soldiers, joined his forces to those of Archelaus, who had only ten thousand ...
( Category: Egypt March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 1991-01-14 | Author:Philip K. Dick

124 Philip K. Dick The Divine Invasion the world to come?" . . . Two men appeared on the scene and Elijah said, "These two will share in the world ...
( Category: Post-Apocalyptic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-28 | Author:James Clavell

Buntaro was waiting for him a hundred paces away in the center of the path that led down to the village—squat, immense, and deadly. The guard stood beside him. It ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2006-03-14 | Author:Max Brooks

But there were other women… Other cadets, other competitors who happen to have the same genitalia. Trust me, when the pressure kicked in, sisterhood punched out. No, it was me, ...
( Category: War March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Shelby Foote [Foote, Shelby]

Tactically speaking, Lee no doubt regretted Burnside’s departure. He would miss him, much as he missed McClellan, now in retirement, and John Pope and Joe Hooker, who had been shunted ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Shelby Foote [Foote, Shelby]

Neither was their presence in the orchard covered by any instructions from their own commander. In fact, at the time Hood’s men first spotted them, Meade did not even know ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Shelby Foote [Foote, Shelby]

The wire did not have to go all the way to Washington; the Secretary was at Fort Monroe. He had arrived two days ago with Lincoln and Chase, primarily for ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-04-28 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

17 The King, when Tiribazus had joined him in the interior, sent down Struthas to take charge of affairs on the coast. Struthas, however, remembering all the harm that the ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-29 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

CHAPTER 9 [1] So far I have covered how to avoid being swindled when buying a colt or a horse, how to treat a horse so as to avoid spoiling ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-28 | Author:Manning Marable [Marable, Manning]

Despite continuing threats, the Littles struggled to build a UNIA organization. On Sunday, May 8, 1926, the local branch held a meeting that featured “Mr. E. Little” as its principal ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-02-06 | Author:Kate Mosse [Mosse, Kate]

CHAPTER 41 Shelagh had grown accustomed to the dark. She was being held in a stable or animal pen of some sort. There was a sharp, acrid smell of droppings, ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Amos Oz [Oz, Amos]

From my early childhood on I was the victim of a thorough, protracted brainwashing: Uncle Joseph's temple of books in Talpiot, Father's strait-jacket of books in our apartment in Kerem ...
( Category: Jewish March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Titus Livy

BOOK FOUR War and Politics The next consuls were Marcus Genucius and Gaius Curtius. War and political dissension made the year a difficult one. Hardly had it begun, when the ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Titus Livy

BOOK IX 1. This year was followed by the Caudine Peace, the notorious outcome of a Roman catastrophe. The consuls were Titus Veturius Calvinus and Spurius Postumius.1 The Samnites had ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1972-03-24 | Author:Titus Livy

BOOK XXVII 1. This, then, was the state of affairs in Spain. Meanwhile in Italy the consul Marcellus, after Salapia had been betrayed into his hands, stormed and captured from ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )