Historical
mobi |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell
Chapter 8 GENERAL STUART'S AIDE reached Lee's headquarters before dawn and found the army's commander standing outside his tent in contemplation of a crude map scratched in the dirt. The ...
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Military
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:C. S. Forester
CHAPTER EIGHT “This’ll do,” said Hornblower to the landlady. “Bring ‘em up, ‘Arry,” yelled the landlady over her shoulder, and Hornblower heard the heavy feet of the idiot son on ...
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Historical
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1983-09-30 | Author:Len Deighton
Captain James A. Farebrother The cold front that had brought havoc to the Brunswick mission passed across Britain, so that by the following morning there was the usual west wind ...
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Espionage
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell
THE NORTHERN ARMY groped cautiously into the deserted Maryland farmlands, where General McClellan left nothing to chance. He watched his flanks, secured his communications, and advanced his forward units at ...
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Military
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2005-03-01 | Author:Conn Iggulden
The Helvetii had no cavalry and Julius sent the extraordinarii out to hammer their lines as they tried desperately to re-form to repel the new attack. As Julius marched with ...
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Military
February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell
CHAPTER 7 it was just before midday when a French soldier climbed the hill carrying a white flag of truce tied to the muzzle of his musket. Two officers accompanied ...
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Military
February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell
CHAPTER 11 Lieutenant of Marines Fytch, to whom Sharpe had hardly spoken since they had marched inland, brought the civilians to Major Sharpe. The Lieutenant herded them at pistol-point until ...
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Military
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1972-02-07 | Author:Patrick O'brian
CHAPTER NINE The Polychrest left her convoy in 38° 30' N., ll°W., with the wind at south-west and the Rock of Lisbon bearing S87E., 47 leagues. She fired a gun, ...
( Category:
Historical
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Harry Sidebottom
XV The theatre of Ephesus can be seen from miles out at sea. The Venus came out of the early morning mist and there it was, directly ahead, its marble ...
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Historical
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1983-06-29 | Author:Patrick O'brian
CHAPTER SEVEN During the Niobe's return to Suez the usual northerly breezes blew with scarcely a pause; she had to beat up all the way, often tacking two or three ...
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Historical
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1988-07-30 | Author:Patrick O'brian
CHAPTER SIX On the misty night of Thursday the Surprise kept a lookout aloft, and now from the foretopsail yard he called 'On deck, there. I think I see 'em.' ...
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Military
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1995-07-30 | Author:Patrick O'brian
CHAPTER SIX In the afternoon of Saturday, with the Berlings in sight on the larboard bow, the topgallant-sail breeze that had been bowling the Ringle along so handsomely since Cape ...
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Historical
February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1986-05-30 | Author:Patrick O'brian
CHAPTER SIX The Portsmouth night coach was an almost entirely naval concern, apart from the horses and one of the inside passengers, an elderly lady; the coachman had been in ...
( Category:
Crime
February 9,2015 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-04-30 | Author:Conn Iggulden
Chapter 18 TEMUJIN WATCHED THE SUN pass overhead, its fire damped by heavy cloud, so that he was able to gaze on the orange disk with only a little discomfort. ...
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Military
February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell
CHAPTER 11 “Not a day for cricket, eh, Sharpe?” Lieutenant-Colonel Ford shouted the jocular greeting, though his expression was hardly welcoming. The Colonel, with Major Vine beside him, crouched in ...
( Category:
Military
February 9,2015 )
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