Historical
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-06-18 | Author:Randolph, Octavia [Randolph, Octavia]

The light of the days dwindled as the cold and snows increased; Yule had come. To herald the shortest day and longest night we held a feast, and Rannveig and ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Macbain, Bruce [Macbain, Bruce]

22 My Secret Discovered “Wake up, Odd Tangle-Hair. Wake up!” Ketil’s grandson shook me until my eyes opened. The loft was dark except for the feeble light of his candle. ...
( Category: Family Saga June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-04-06 | Author:Kristian, Giles [Kristian, Giles]

CHAPTER TEN ‘HOW MANY WARRIORS went with him, Raven?’ Sigurd asked. His eyes shone as though he believed the Norns of fate were weaving the most wonderful pattern. ‘No less ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Kristian, Giles [Kristian, Giles]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN FOR THE REST of the day we wandered the city, having arranged to meet Winigis on the northern bank where his people’s shit slid into the Sicauna. He ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-04-13 | Author:Kristian, Giles [Kristian, Giles]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN I WAS WOKEN BY A CLAMOROUS, EAR-POUNDING BELLOWING. Nearby, on the large square base stone of some long-vanished statue, a massive bull was fighting ten men who were ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-04-23 | Author:Kristian, Giles [Kristian, Giles]

CHAPTER TWELVE THE KNÖRR WAS a good vessel, forty-five feet long, eleven feet wide and with a draught of a little under three feet. She had half decks both fore ...
( Category: War & Military June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-23 | Author:Born, Jason [Born, Jason]

Sometime later that day, Etleloo’s wife and Kesegowaase’s wife came running into the village distraught. I stood next to a great cauldron where men stood slowly stirring the heated maple ...
( Category: Historical June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:Born, Jason [Born, Jason]

. . . I was soaking wet with sweat when I finally made it back to the ship. We slapped Thorvald onto the deck just as the men used the ...
( Category: War & Military June 6,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-02-13 | Author:Born, Jason [Born, Jason]

CHAPTER 5 Men of any excellence are hard to find. If the spectrum of men runs from my head to my heel, then excellent men of any stripe are represented ...
( Category: Historical June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Born, Jason [Born, Jason]

CHAPTER 8 We awoke one morning during that first winter in Kaupangen with the howling wind picking up bits of ice and throwing them against Olaf’s hall. It had been ...
( Category: Historical June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 1998-03-14 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

Part Three Camelot ‘ALL THE TREASURES BURNED?’ Igraine asked me. ‘Everything,’ I said, ‘disappeared.’ ‘Poor Merlin,’ Igraine said. She has taken her usual place on my window-sill, though she is ...
( Category: Historical June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-07-23 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

Six These days, whenever Englishmen talk of the battle of Æsc’s Hill, they speak of God giving the West Saxons the victory because King Æthelred and his brother Alfred were ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-09-30 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

Eight 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: War & Military June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

Eight We left Bearddan Igge in a thick fog just two mornings after Saint Oswald had been so miraculously discovered entangled in the fish trap. One hundred and thirty-three men ...
( Category: War & Military June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Cornwell, Bernard [Cornwell, Bernard]

I wrote Alfred a letter. I have always hated writing, and it has been years since I last used a quill. My wife’s priests now scratch letters for me, but ...
( Category: War & Military June 6,2019 )