Historical
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
epub |eng | | Author:Amitav Ghosh

May 30, 1840 Honam This morning I arrived at the print-shop to find Zhong Lou-si seated inside. This had never happened before so I knew something unusual was going on. ...
( Category: Indian May 30,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Tan Twan Eng

Noel hit him, but I caught and held his arm as he raised it again. “What’re you talking about?” Kon stood up and said, “Listen carefully, Ramanathan. You can tell ...
( Category: Historical May 29,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2005-03-31 | Author:Fullerton, Alexander [Fullerton, Alexander]

Sixteen-thirty: with four and a half hours of daylight left, the ships were alone again. Two Hurricanes had stayed with them for about an hour after that air battle, then ...
( Category: Military May 27,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Fullerton, Alexander [Fullerton, Alexander]

The train rattled and swayed through the cold German night. It was made up almost entirely of goods trucks, and even its three passenger carriages were more than it needed. ...
( Category: Military May 27,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-01 | Author:Sarah Mallory [Mallory, Sarah]

Chapter Nine At last Mary was ready to leave. She had delayed as long as she could, savouring those final moments with Randall, knowing it could be the last time ...
( Category: Historical May 27,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-31 | Author:Fullerton, Alexander [Fullerton, Alexander]

As soon as they surfaced that evening Creagh went down on to the casing to do a maintenance routine on the gun. It was mostly a matter of greasing it, ...
( Category: Military May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-21 | Author:Ben Byrne

The next day, I washed, dressed in my brightest clothes and painted my eyes in vivid colours. I took the Yamanote Line to Shimbashi and walked in the direction of ...
( Category: Historical May 27,2015 )