epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:John Pilkington [Pilkington, John]

TWELVE Ottone had taken his own life; at least that was Prout’s first thought. But Marbeck knew that he hadn’t. ‘It looks utterly wrong,’ he insisted. ‘No one could have ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:John Pilkington [Pilkington, John]

THIRTEEN There was a long moment, while MacNeish gazed at Marbeck. Finally, seeing that dissembling was pointless, he spoke up. ‘He was a foreigner,’ he admitted, with a glance at ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:John Pilkington [Pilkington, John]

TWELVE In the dawn, Marbeck walked Cobb slowly through cobbled streets. Wisps of smoke rose as the town stirred into life. Dover Castle loomed in the distance, its flag flying ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:John Pilkington [Pilkington, John]

TWELVE Late the following night, Marbeck was back in Weymouth. He had slipped into the town after dark, and tethered Cobb to a ring on the quayside. Now, with the ...

epub |eng | 2021-03-21 | Author:John Pilkington [Pilkington, John]

ELEVEN The arresting party left Gloucester the following day, in bright sunshine. I rode a gelding borrowed from March, of whom I had taken my farewell early that morning. We ...

epub |eng | 1956-01-01 | Author:Churchill, Winston S. [Churchill, Winston S.]

At this decisive moment England’s monarchy might well have conformed to the absolutism which was becoming general throughout Europe. Events however took a different turn. The King was by no ...

epub |eng | 1957-01-01 | Author:Churchill, Winston S. [Churchill, Winston S.]

pdf | | 2010-02-07 | Author:John Guy

epub |eng | 2024-03-16 | Author:Baldwin, Tom & Stears, Marc

Victorians on speed Under the headline ‘The Good Old Days’, Thatcher described the lessons of a childhood growing up in the Lincolnshire town of Grantham with a list including ‘cleanliness ...

epub |eng | 2022-10-08 | Author:Peake, R.W. [Peake, R.W.]

If anyone had bothered to ask Bjorn Sigurdson, he would have happily told them that he had no desire to be in charge of the defenders of Boulogne. No, he ...

epub |eng | 2022-11-15 | Author:John Pilkington [Pilkington, John]

NINE His name was Juan Carnicero, and he was no ordinary soldier of Spain: he was a carrier of official despatches who had ridden all the way from Flanders - ...

epub |eng | 2022-07-12 | Author:John Pilkington [Pilkington, John]

NINE It was a night to remember, Revill would think later, but not for any moment of passion. It was one of confession, for a decision occurred that in the ...

epub |eng | 2022-12-14 | Author:Peake, R.W. [Peake, R.W.]

In what would become a symbol of the young Lord of Wiltun’s rule, the atmosphere in his hall was much less formal than it was during his father’s time, something ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2021-01-16 | Author:Richard Woodman

4 Macintyre was correct. It rained heavily that evening, severely restricting visibility so that Sanford spent most of the first watch alongside Richards on the bridge. The Da Feng was ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Churchill, Winston S.; [Churchill, Winston S.]

says the communiqué— convinced that the Bonn and Paris Treaties provide the best way. Nobody can call that a platitude. It is a grave decision but not a new decision. ...