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Small wars: a novel by Sadie Jones
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-19 | Author:Sadie Jones

Chapter Eight The summary hearings were held immediately, within forty-eight hours of the crimes being reported. Both Colonel Burroughs’s and Hal’s offices were too small to hold all the people ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
Grail Quest 02. Vagabond by Bernard Cornwell
mobi |eng | 2009-05-28 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

Sir Guillaume had held the manor from its attackers for close on three months and did not doubt he could hold it indefinitely so long as the Count of Coutances ...
( Category: Military June 11,2015 )
The Silver Eagle: The Forgotten Legion Chronicles by Ben Kane
mobi |eng | 2010-04-29 | Author:Ben Kane

Chapter XVI: The Road to Gaul Northern Italy, winter 53/52 BC Seeing her fear, Secundus moved closer. ‘Tell me.’ ‘It’s the fugitivarii,’ Fabiola whispered. ‘I know it.’ ‘This would be ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
Travels with My Aunt (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
mobi |eng | 2007-01-15 | Author:Graham Greene

Chapter 16 IT SEEMED AT FIRST another and a happier world which I had re-entered: I was back home, in the late afternoon, as the long shadows were falling; a ...
( Category: Spies & Politics June 11,2015 )
The comedians by Graham Greene
mobi |eng | 1976-01-15 | Author:Graham Greene

4 'Jones,' I exclaimed. There were still the relics of battle on his face, but they were neatly covered now with pieces of sticking-plaster. 'Why, if it isn't Brown,' he ...
( Category: Spies & Politics June 11,2015 )
Midshipman Bolitho and the Avenger by Alexander Kent
mobi |eng | 2010-10-23 | Author:Alexander Kent

He looked down at the Avenger tied to the jetty. She seemed even less a King's ship from this angle. Her broad deck was strewn with ropes and alive with ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
A Crowning Mercy by Bernard Cornwell and Susannah Kells
mobi |eng | 2006-06-10 | Author:Bernard Cornwell and Susannah Kells

“‘Clouds and darkness are round about him: Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne. A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.’” The voices ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense June 11,2015 )
The Burning Land: A Novel by Bernard Cornwell
mobi |eng | 2010-01-19 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

FOUR 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: Historical June 11,2015 )
21 stories by Graham Greene
mobi |eng | 1962-01-15 | Author:Graham Greene

The Hint of an Explanation A long train journey on a late December evening, in this new version of peace, is a dreary experience. I suppose that my fellow traveller ...
( Category: Espionage June 11,2015 )
Stiff upper lip, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-27 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse

14 'Have you seen Fink-Nottle?' he said. I didn't like the way he spoke or the way he was looking. The lips, I noted, were twitching, and the eyes glittered ...
( Category: Humorous June 11,2015 )
Sharpe's Revenge: Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814 by Bernard Cornwell
mobi |eng | 1997-02-15 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 9 Captain Peter d'Alembord sat in the drawing-room of the Cork Street house and felt acutely uncomfortable. It was not that d'Alembord was unused to luxury, indeed he had ...
( Category: Military June 11,2015 )
Fall Of Giants by Follett Ken - Century Trilogy
mobi |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Follett, Ken - Century Trilogy [Follett, Ken - Century Trilogy]

{ III } Private Robin Mortimer was angry. “This is fucking stupid,” he said when they heard the crackle of machine guns. “We should have gone over in the dark. ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 11,2015 )
Generals by Mark Urban
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mark Urban [Urban, Mark]

The figure who appeared through Darfur’s shimmering desert heat haze bore little similarity to the colonel commanding at Gravesend. Mounted on a strapping charger, the forty-four-year-old Gordon wore the dark ...
( Category: Humorous June 10,2015 )
[Sir John Fielding 02] - Murder in Grub Street by Bruce Alexander
epub |eng | 1995-05-12 | Author:Bruce Alexander [Alexander, Bruce]

Chapter Seven In which John Clayton has his say, and Jimmie Bunkins takes me on a journey Sir John Fielding allowed himself no day of complete rest of a Sunday. ...
( Category: British & Irish June 8,2015 )
The Making of the Middle Ages by Richard William Southern
epub |eng | 2015-05-30 | Author:Richard William Southern [Southern, Richard William]

and in 1073 he stood at the height of his power and influence with a long record of devoted service in the papal cause. In many ways he was the ...
( Category: British & Irish June 1,2015 )

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