Historical
epub |eng | 2013-02-10 | Author:David Donachie [David Donachie]
Heinrich Lutyens was amused by the way Emily Barclay had repeatedly described John Pearce’s behaviour in Livorno as reprehensible; not endlessly, but somehow the subject had been alluded to more ...
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Sea Stories
February 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-10 | Author:David Donachie [David Donachie]
CHAPTER TWELVE HMS Leander had joined the fleet by the time Midshipman Farmiloe came aboard the flagship, his news occasioning an immediate conference of the senior officers, both Spanish and ...
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Historical
February 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-09 | Author:Alys Clare [Clare, Alys]
The directions were easy to follow and presently Helewise was leading her companions through the gate and into the courtyard of Florian’s Hadfeld manor house. There was a row of ...
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Historical
February 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-06-22 | Author:Alys Clare [Clare, Alys]
11 Geoffroi returned to Lewes in the spring. The Lombard insisted on accompanying him; a man who stood fair to lose his heart (if indeed he had not already lost ...
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Historical
February 10,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:George Macdonald Fraser
Any doubts I might have had about the military bandobast of the Wollo Gallas were banished entirely in the next few hours when I conferred with their commanders. They were ...
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Historical
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1977-12-08 | Author:Patrick O'brian
CHAPTER SIX There were no banquets at the Cape for Jack Aubrey; there were few kind words from the Admiral, either, although the Commodore had brought in all his squadron ...
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Historical
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1992-07-30 | Author:Patrick O'brian
'And so, sir - a trifle of crackling?' 'If you please,' said Jack, holding out his plate. 'How I love roast pork.' 'And so, sir, having left the Franklin astern, ...
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Historical
February 9,2015 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2008-07-17 | Author:Conn Iggulden
♦ ♦ ♦ Temuge walked through pitch darkness to the ger of Kokchu. As he passed the door, he heard the muffled sound of weeping from within, but he did ...
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Military
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-19 | Author:Alexander Kent
"Aye, sir." Inch frowned. "We have never done it before, of course." He chuckled, all doubt gone. "But then we had never fired at a fortress either!" "Good. Once you ...
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Military
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-03-26 | Author:Conn Iggulden
Labienus stood still on the training yard at Dyrrhachium. More than two hundred of Caesars Third legion were on their knees in the red dust, their hands bound behind them. ...
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Military
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Harry Sidebottom
XVII At dawn on the fifth day, Boreas finally gave over. High above, ragged dark clouds still scudded south, vanishing inland over the mountains. Yet down in the port of ...
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Historical
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell
CHAPTER 13 Sharpe pointed at a stunted olive tree, apparently a marker between two fields, and shouted up at Hagman. 'See the tree, Daniel?' The voice came down from the ...
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Military
February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1984-04-11 | Author:Len Deighton
‘You’ve heard of this fine new German School in Highgate’ he said. ‘I’ve heard about it.’ It was for the children of SS and Wehrmacht officers and for those ‘of ...
( Category:
Espionage
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1979-04-29 | Author:Patrick O'brian
CHAPTER SIX It was with a feeling not unlike dread that Stephen followed Mrs Wogan into Franchon's hotel. The people behind the desk were talking French and this, together with ...
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Historical
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1993-04-29 | Author:Patrick O'brian
CHAPTER SEVEN The little girls, stiff with pride and amazement, and fairly soused with holy water, were handed into the carriage after pontifical High Mass in Lima cathedral. They smoothed ...
( Category:
Sea Stories
February 9,2015 )
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