Historical Fiction
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Gary D. Schmidt

February is a can't-decide-what-it-wants-to-be month on Long Island. What's left of any snow has melted into brown slush and runs in dirty ridges alongside the street gutters. The grass is ...
( Category: Military & Wars May 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Michael Morpurgo [Morpurgo, Michael]

I shouldn’t have said anything. Kaspar must have understood enough of it, or maybe he just picked up on my sadness, I don’t know. But either way, it became clear ...
( Category: Historical Fiction April 28,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Michael Morpurgo [Morpurgo, Michael]

Two I remember standing there in Aunt Lotti’s kitchen watching this confrontation, and feeling very confused. I could not understand how Mutti could be like this. It seemed to me ...
( Category: Europe April 28,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-03-23 | Author:Hahn, Mary Downing [Hahn, Mary Downing]

Elizabeth stumbled on "nipperkin" and giggled. "'Wet right many a nipperkin'? What does that mean?" "Drink a mug of beer," Stuart said, "a half-pint like in England." That made us ...
( Category: Military & Wars April 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-05-19 | Author:Mary Downing Hahn [Hahn, Mary Downing]

"All clean and fresh and ready to be tucked into bed." Aunt Hester smiled broadly and gave us each a small kiss. "Come this way." Aunt Esther led us to ...
( Category: Military & Wars April 28,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Mary Downing Hahn [Hahn, Mary Downing]

Eight FINALLY THE COLD DROVE ME to close the window and put on my own dress, rough and brown and scratchy against my skin. Afraid to stay in my room ...
( Category: Europe April 28,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-03-20 | Author:Mary Downing Hahn [Hahn, Mary Downing]

CHAPTER 11 I scooted up those stairs like a scared rabbit, but I wasn't quick enough. At the very moment I reached the back door, Mr. Kirby and Colonel Abednego ...
( Category: United States April 28,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Bradford, Chris [Bradford, Chris]

31 Sea Anchor The typhoon hit the Black Spider with full force, the wind shrieking and howling like a banshee, deafening the crew and blinding them with spray. The Seto ...
( Category: Historical Fiction April 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Smith, Lindsay [Smith, Lindsay]

CHAPTER 23 PAVEL, MY GUARD, hovers over me. Watching him is like hearing an echo; his face trails behind his movements, and his words dot his face like breath in ...
( Category: Military & Wars April 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-24 | Author:Philip Kerr [Kerr, Philip]

KALINKA WAS TREMBLING INSIDE her Astrakhan coat for almost an hour after the wolf attack; it was as if she’d had an electric shock, and although she had not slept ...
( Category: Holocaust March 31,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Julia Golding

Reward? I didn’t like the sound of that, but I had no time to worry about it now. The news about Pedro was worse than I had imagined: in his ...
( Category: Historical Fiction March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:John Marsden [Marsden, John]

Chapter Ten There was a hint of light in the eastern sky. Or was it my imagination? I’d looked for dawn so many times already, but with no satisfaction. Homer ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1989-02-04 | Author:Judith Kerr [Kerr, Judith]

Wednesday Max could not have slept well either, and they were both bad-tempered at breakfast. They had to wait for their coffee, for the little breakfast room was filled with ...
( Category: Historical Fiction March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Robert Muchamore [Muchamore, Robert]

* * * 10SS, or Schutzstaffel – the elite military division of the Nazi party. SS personnel were selected on grounds of racial purity and fanatical devotion to Hitler. CHAPTER ...
( Category: Military & Wars March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Robert Muchamore [Muchamore, Robert]

Part Two 14 June 1940 – 15 June 1940 By 11 June the French Government had left Paris and German forces were within ten kilometres of the city. Fearing a ...
( Category: Military & Wars March 27,2014 )