War & Military
azw3 |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Kristian, Giles [Kristian, Giles]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN FOR THE REST of the day we wandered the city, having arranged to meet Winigis on the northern bank where his people’s shit slid into the Sicauna. He ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-04-23 | Author:Kristian, Giles [Kristian, Giles]

CHAPTER TWELVE THE KNÖRR WAS a good vessel, forty-five feet long, eleven feet wide and with a draught of a little under three feet. She had half decks both fore ...
( Category: War & Military June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-23 | Author:Born, Jason [Born, Jason]

Sometime later that day, Etleloo’s wife and Kesegowaase’s wife came running into the village distraught. I stood next to a great cauldron where men stood slowly stirring the heated maple ...
( Category: Historical June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:Born, Jason [Born, Jason]

. . . I was soaking wet with sweat when I finally made it back to the ship. We slapped Thorvald onto the deck just as the men used the ...
( Category: War & Military June 6,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-02-13 | Author:Born, Jason [Born, Jason]

CHAPTER 5 Men of any excellence are hard to find. If the spectrum of men runs from my head to my heel, then excellent men of any stripe are represented ...
( Category: Historical June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Born, Jason [Born, Jason]

CHAPTER 8 We awoke one morning during that first winter in Kaupangen with the howling wind picking up bits of ice and throwing them against Olaf’s hall. It had been ...
( Category: Historical June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-07-23 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

Six These days, whenever Englishmen talk of the battle of Æsc’s Hill, they speak of God giving the West Saxons the victory because King Æthelred and his brother Alfred were ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-09-30 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

Eight I had told Finan to play the madman, a thing he could do well. Not mad as in moon-touched, but dangerously mad as though one wrong word could send ...
( Category: War & Military June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

Eight We left Bearddan Igge in a thick fog just two mornings after Saint Oswald had been so miraculously discovered entangled in the fish trap. One hundred and thirty-three men ...
( Category: War & Military June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

I wrote Alfred a letter. I have always hated writing, and it has been years since I last used a quill. My wife’s priests now scratch letters for me, but ...
( Category: War & Military June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

The bell still tolled as I dressed. Eadith lay under the bed pelts, watching me. I dressed in the clothes I had traveled in, damp, stained, and smelly, then bent ...
( Category: War & Military June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

Seven Osferth was not invited to Tamweorthin. “King Edward,” he had told me stiffly, “would prefer I did not attend.” “Or even exist?” “That too,” he admitted with a tight ...
( Category: War & Military June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

Wulfhere’s men did it. They did not break Osric’s shield wall by fighting it, but by trying to join it. Few of them wanted to fight for the Danes and, ...
( Category: War & Military June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-07-23 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

Eight Before the Pedredan reaches the sea it makes a great curve through the swamp, a curve that is almost three-quarters of a circle and on the inside of the ...
( Category: War & Military June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-06-11 | Author:Low, Robert [Low, Robert]

Which let me know, from his accent, that he was more Slav than Norse and more learned than most – though one of the wise Sayings of the High One ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense June 6,2019 )