Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Dudley Pope

tacks will give him more confidence.' 'He's going to need it,' Southwick said grimly. 'If he arrives five minutes late it might be all up with us!' 'And if we ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
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 ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Dudley Pope

emphasize the liner, a ship carrying cargo or passengers on a regular route or line and thus not a tramp (which went from port to port touting for cargoes), with ...
( Category: Military 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 ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Dudley Pope

He had searched the fo'c'sle and found half aparmigiano of an age, size and hardness, so Stafford claimed, making it suitable for repairing the stonework of St Paul's Cathedral. Certainly ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-19 | Author:Alexander Kent

11 the Last farewell GALBRAITH stifled a yawn and walked up to the weather side of the quarterdeck. Another morning watch, when a ship came alive again and found her ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-10 | Author:Jean Auel

Chapter 21 The people of the Ninth Cave had been making preparations for their annual trek to the Summer Meeting of the Zelandonii since they returned from the last one, ...
( Category: 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, ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-19 | Author:Alexander Kent

11. Faces in the crowd THE Golden Fleece Inn which stood on the outskirts of Dover was an imposing, weatherbeaten building, a place to change post horses, to rest a ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:C. S. Forester

CHAPTER XIII The fact that he had not taken off his clothes told Brown and Dobbs and Howard at dawn that Hornblower had not been as composed and self-confident as ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:George Macdonald Fraser

8 Cowards, as Shakespeare has wisely observed, die many times before their deaths, but not many of them can have expired in spirit more often than I. And I've seldom ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:C. S. Forester

Chapter XI These were the blue waters where history had been made, where the future of civilization had been decided, more than once and more than twice. Here Greek had ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:George Macdonald Fraser

THE SEVENTY-SIXER It's only when you've grown old that you begin to see that life doesn't run in a straight line; that you can never be sure a chapter is ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-11 | Author:Agatha Christie

Chapter 14 Excursion into the Past After a night in the train, Inspector Craddock alighted at a small station in the Highlands. It struck him for a moment as strange ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers 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 ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )