Historical
mobi |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:Harry Sidebottom

About three miles down the coast west from Sebaste was the town of Corycus. The most notable thing about it was the island lying offshore. It shared a name with ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

PART THREE Nimue’s Curse Queen Igraine sat in my window and read the last sheets of parchment, sometimes asking me the meaning of a Saxon word, but otherwise saying nothing. ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

'I told the Colonel.' 'You did!' Harper laughed. 'Mind you, you should marry her. Make an honest woman of her.' 'And what about Jane Gibbons?' Harper grinned. He had met ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1973-05-30 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER EIGHT The Surprise lay at single anchor, well out in the channel: the wind was fair, the tide near the height of flood, and her captain stood at the ...
( Category: Sea Stories February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Alexander Kent

Face to Face Richard Bolitho awoke from the dream, and for a few lingering moments was confused by the sounds and movements around him. He lay on his back in ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

Chapter 8 WHAT IS THIS?” BELVEDERE DELANEY HELD A BANK note between his finger and thumb as though the crumpled thing held a contagion. “‘Parish of Point Coupee,’” he read ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-27 | Author:Alexander Kent

Unknown ?charge!’ Then the mood changed. ‘They just gave the word to douse the galley stove. You know what that means.’ Jago pushed the thought aside and said roughly, ‘When ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 7 Dodd called his new gelding Peter. “Because it's got no balls, Monsewer,” he informed Pierre Joubert, and he repeated the poor joke a dozen times in the next ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Conn Iggulden

Jelaudin rubbed his eyes, furious at his own weakness. He could not let his three brothers see his air of confidence fade, not when they looked to him every day ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

They charged. They were men who wanted to revenge a near defeat, and the sound of their vengeance as they scrambled up the shot-mangled steps was bloodcurdling. Somewhere ahead of ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-11 | Author:Agatha Christie

Chapter 18 I Hardcastle arrived at No. 19, Wilbraham Crescent just as Miss Pebmarsh was coming out of the house. ‘Excuse me a minute, Miss Pebmarsh.’ ‘Oh. Is it—Detective Inspector ...
( Category: Murder February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:Alexander Kent

Down on the jetty Allday seated himself comfortably on a stone bollard and began to fill his new pipe with tobacco. He had sent the barge back to the ship. ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

De l’Eclin opened his sabretache and took out two cigars. He offered one to the Rifleman, who saw no reason to refuse it. The two men companionably shared the flame ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1976-01-02 | Author:Alexander Kent

10 Too Much Courage 'Fix your bayonets!' Herrick gritted his teeth to contain his impatience as Prideaux brought the marines into a single line, while further along the uneven slope ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:George Macdonald Fraser

Appendix The Emperor Franz-Josef (1830-1916) and Empress Elisabeth (1837-1898) "The last European monarch of the old school", was how the Emperor Franz-Josef I described himself to Theodore Roosevelt, with good ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )