Historical
epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Allan Mallinson [Mallinson, Allan]

PART II THE TOUCH OF THE SPEAR Cape Colony XIV FIRST FOOTINGS Cape Town, 9 August 1827 Teams of sweating Hottentots heaved on the ropes at the quayside, and one ...
( Category: Historical January 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

In the great cabin Ramage found an elegantly carved desk, with an inlaid top set facing the stern lights. He sat down and looked out at the smooth wake the ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Douglas Reeman [Reeman, Douglas]

The girl turned and stared up at him. `He can’t be moved! I’m not leaving without him!’ Her voice quivered and there were tears cutting through the grime on her ...
( Category: War January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 1973-01-01 | Author:George MacDonald Fraser [Fraser, George MacDonald]

* * * I've been in a good few sieges in my time, from full-dress affairs like Cawnpore, Lucknow, and the Pekin nonsense a few years ago, to more domestic ...
( Category: Historical January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Alexander Kent [Kent, Alexander]

156 COLOURS ALOFT! “Fire!” The broadside thundered out again, and Bolitho heard some-one cheering, like a demented soul in Hell, he thought. Allday exclaimed, “Her mizzen’s gone! She’s tryin’ to ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:Allan Mallinson [Mallinson, Allan]

A month passed without his venturing south or west of the city, for the Tallow troop was hard-pressed mounting smuggler-patrols around Youghal, and Hervey’s troop had been sent to assist ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 1971-01-01 | Author:George MacDonald Fraser [Fraser, George MacDonald]

9 If ever you have to run slaves — which seems unlikely nowadays, although you never can tell what may happen if we have the Liberals back — the way ...
( Category: Historical January 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-09-30 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

Once through the square the 'chaise swung inland after running parallel with the coast for eighty kilometres and followed the valley of the River Somme. Nine miles beyond Abbeville they ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Alexander Kent [Kent, Alexander]

Richard Bolitho Midshipman 6 Face to Face `Easy there! Watch your stroke!' Hope, the Gorgon's fifth lieutenant, hissed in the darkness, craning forward from the sternsheets as if to seek ...
( Category: European January 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Richard Woodman [Woodman, Richard]

* * * Chapter Eleven August 1799 Kosseir Bay On the afternoon of 10th August it seemed that Santhonax had surprised them. Anxious glasses trained astern at the two ships ...
( Category: War January 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Alexander Kent [Kent, Alexander]

So many ifs and maybes. Suppose the plan to land on and capture the French islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe misfired? Without overwhelming superiority at sea the scheme would certainly ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

cheekbones, eyes that laughed - or, when she was angry, stabbed. Aunt Gianna was slim with an imperious body and jutting breasts that made the ship and the sea fade ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

been damaged. Suddenly his head came level with the deck and a moment later he was through the entryport, standing on the deck itself and staring into the muzzle of ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1980-01-01 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

Everybody is dead," he added vaguely. "I feed them both. Very hungry we are, too; it has been a long walk." The innkeeper understood his customer better than Ramage, and ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-31 | Author:Allan Mallinson [Mallinson, Allan]

XII A MARRIAGE KNOT Hertfordshire, 2 May 1828 ‘Hervey, I am ever more delighted by your English countryside,’ declared Fairbrother, looking out of the chaise window at the rippling fields ...
( Category: Historical January 16,2015 )