War & Military
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

"A mule, sir." The Lieutenant smiled brightly. He saw Sharpe's face. "Sorry, sir. My little joke." He became serious. "That's the supplies for the castle, sir. Sir Arthur's. You understand." ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

"Captain Frederickson!" "I see them, sir!" Sharpe ran behind the rear of a waggon. On this left side of the road, where Minver's men stayed in hiding, a full Company ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

It was then that the Riflemen appeared from the house, splintering down the bullet-riddled door and running into the yard with sword-bayonets fixed. They cheered the Spaniard. “East!” Vivar shouted ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

He was uncomfortable. He had piled a dead man's intestines on his stomach and had tucked the entrails into the waistband of the borrowed uniform so that the gleaming, wet, ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

"Why not?" she asked. "Our sails have clouds behind them"-he gestured to the great cloud range that piled above Africa-"and with any luck our canvas just blends into the sky." ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

Joscelyn was the Count of Berat. He kept remembering that, and each remembrance gave him a surge of pure joy. Count of Berat! Lord of money. Villesisle and his companion ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

"I think I'll go on shaving myself," Sharpe said with a smile. So Vicente gave Luis one of the captured French muskets and a cartridge box of ammunition and the ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

"Or Poles, or Germans, or Italians." Lassan knew there were desperate men of all those nationalities released from Napoleon's defeated armies. Somehow he did not wish to believe that Frenchmen ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

El Castrador nodded. "The bull rose?" "A horn in the small of the man's back," Sharpe confirmed. "Well, I am the bull, señor, and I confess to being wounded, but ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

A rebel officer shouted a piercing warning. The swaying mainmast splintered and cracked. Canvas billowed down onto the deck and into the sea. The collapsing mast dragged in its wake ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

They had escaped Foulness, but not Colonel Girdwood's pursuit. Sharpe knew that even now horsemen would be riding towards the first ford or bridge over the Crouch and that he ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

He must be a sergeant and he must be able to read and write, but there's a third requirement too. The fellow must perform a quite impossibly gallant act. Leading ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

is no better sign of good health. Alas, it is not yours.” The doctor pushed open the window and poured the urine away. Swallow,” he instructed Thomas. Thomas’s mouth was ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )