Historical
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:C. S. Forester

Chapter 11 Hornblower had written the address, the date, and the word ‘Sir’ before he realized that the report would not be so easy to write. He was quite sure ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Simon Scarrow

05 The Eagles Prey CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE ‘Batavians?’ Figulus looked towards the crest of the ridge, as if expecting their pursuers to ride into sight at any moment. He turned back ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Dudley Pope

"Save himself a hundred miles. Or Bordeaux." "No," Ramage said, "from Lisbon he'll head for St Malo - once the Channel Fleet's back in Plymouth. Apart from pride, he'll make ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Simon Scarrow

Nor did they. As darkness thickened and the king’s party fell to feasting, the tribune and his newfound Atrebatan friends got roaring drunk, singing and talking in loud slurred voices ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:C. S. Forester

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Hornblower turned over in his cot with a groan; the effort of turning brought back the pain into his temples, although he moved very cautiously. He was a ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:C. S. Forester

CHAPTER SEVEN — THE SPANISH GALLEYS The old Indefatigable was lying at anchor in the Bay of Cadiz at the time when Spain made peace with France. Hornblower happened to ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Alexander Kent

10 THE RED BAIZE BAG For Richard Bolitho each day of captivity seemed longer than the one before, and the daily routine aboard the Andiron dragged into a slow torture. ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 7 S HARPE SCRAMBLED UP THE ladder. A musket fired from the nave, its sound magnified by the cathedral walls. He heard the ball crack on stone and whine ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Alexander Kent

10 Chasing Shadows Adam Bolitho moved his shoulders very slightly and winced as the heat seared his skin, as though he were naked, or his coat had been hanging on ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
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 ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1993-01-02 | Author:Alexander Kent

ELEVEN The Cutlass The house now employed as army headquarters for the growing military strength at Cape Town had once been the property of a wealthy Dutch trader. It nestled ...
( Category: 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 ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Dudley Pope

Spaniards to surrender two islands. "I wonder if, even in old age, we could ever go back again to bobbins andaffaires. Supposing Ned and Thomas each made a fortune from ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

Our chief business in those years was to prepare Mordred for the throne. He was already our King for he had been acclaimed as a baby on Caer Cadarn’s summit, ...
( Category: 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 ...
( Category: Espionage February 9,2015 )