Historical
epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:Martin Lake [Lake, Martin]

ADMITTING DEFEAT Alfred dismissed the men and turned to go back into the fortress. Ealswith was standing by the gateway, watching in silence. He stepped beside her as if to ...
( Category: War August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-08 | Author:David Pilling [Pilling, David]

11. Hours later, the outlaws stood on the crest of the hill overlooking Eslington manor. A cold November wind whipped across the tops and knifed through their clothes. Richie barely ...
( Category: War August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]

( Category: Anthologies August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:T Greenwood [Greenwood, T]

Twenty-One September 1971 Marsha gassed up at a station in Roanoke, and Ginny went into the little store and bought them each a sugary cider doughnut, and a cup of ...
( Category: Historical August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-13 | Author:Elizabeth Lemarchand [Lemarchand, Elizabeth]

On the way back to Littlechester Pollard found himself thinking more about the Fordyces than the clearly eccentric Mrs Rawlings. By now he felt quite certain that James Fordyce had ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-17 | Author:David Black [Black, David]

Eleven Harry creaked to his feet, and stretched the night chill out his bones. His backside felt permanently imprinted from the rope cats-cradle the second cox’n had rigged for him ...
( Category: Historical August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-02 | Author:David Black [Black, David]

Chapter Thirteen Harry was in his favourite spot at the back of the conning tower, behind the periscope, sunning himself and sharing a smoke with Thierry. They weren’t exactly friends, ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-09 | Author:Elizabeth Lemarchand [Lemarchand, Elizabeth]

‘I could do with a drink, couldn’t you?’ Pollard remarked as Toye braked at the junction of the lane with the main road. ‘Not the Peatcutters though, at this hour ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-29 | Author:Bette Lee Crosby [Crosby, Bette Lee]

COMES THE FALL Hesterville, 1973 In late September, when apples were at their peak of flavor and the smell of fall was in the air, Mama Dixon suggested she and ...
( Category: Southern August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-28 | Author:Elizabeth Lemarchand [Lemarchand, Elizabeth]

‘Well, that’s the end of the Hayes lead all right,’ Pollard said as they drove along the farm road. ‘He couldn’t have done it on grounds of practical possibility, or ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-15 | Author:Izak Botha [Botha, Izak]

Chapter 33 Schreider sat hunched at his desk, his elbows pressed into the arms of his chair, his chin slumped on a pair of clenched fists. His dressing down at ...
( Category: Conspiracies August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-02 | Author:Wendy James [Wendy James]

Mrs Cameron is not as I imagined her. I had thought she would be about Ma’s age, but she is probably only ten years or so older than me, if ...
( Category: Historical August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 1995-08-01 | Author:Newt Gingrich & William R Forstchen [Gingrich, Newt & Forstchen, William R]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN April 18 Norris, Tennessee (Forty miles east-northeast of Oak Ridge) "They're gone." Stretching, Otto Skorzeny climbed out of the secured basement, dug in under the hangar floor, the ...
( Category: War August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-02 | Author:Zane Grey

CHAPTER XXII When the following March came, Adam had been a week plodding southward over the yucca plateaus of the Mohave. The desert had changed its face. Left behind were ...
( Category: Westerns August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Iain Gale [Iain Gale]

He had never imagined that this could happen to him. To be not quite forty and to be leading a platoon of his countrymen in this bloody barren wilderness so ...
( Category: War August 3,2019 )