Historical
mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Gary Jennings

XVII Not many days later, we were among mountains that I recognized from the journey with my mother and uncle. It was still early in the rainy season, but on ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:Cameron, Christian [Cameron, Christian]

SEVENTEEN The morning after the Battle of the Granicus, Alexander was already master of western Asia. We took their camp with our scouts after the battle. The Agrianians had superb ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-09-02 | Author:Lindsey Davis

XXXVI I assumed an expression of Roman steadfastness and calm. 'What's up, son? Fly gone up your nose?' 'I'm staying detached.' 'You can't. You're in this-up to your neck.' 'I'll ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-20 | Author:Jean Plaidy

Chapter VII DUCHESSE DE CHTEAUROUX A penitent King, in the eyes of such rakes as the Duc de Richelieu, meant a dull Court. Moreover ambitious men, such as the Duc ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Steven Pressfield

STEVEN PRESSFIELD Book Seven An Instinct for the Kill 227 The Virtues of War Twenty COUNCILS OF WAR IT TAKES DARIUS TWENTY-THREE MONTHS to raise another army after Issus. As ...
( Category: Short Stories April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-22 | Author:Jean Plaidy

After that I suffered such a tragedy that I forgot all my anxieties about everything else. My little Anne fell ill. She had always been the delicate one and had ...
( Category: Renaissance April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-05-22 | Author:Jean Plaidy

”We shall spend Christmas at Berkhampsted,” said Henry. “Becket will hear that we are there. It will remind him of the proud possession which is no longer his.” He continued ...
( Category: Family Saga April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-28 | Author:The Grand Sophy

( Category: Historical April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-13 | Author:Simon Scarrow

'No, sir,' Vespasian countered firmly. 'I'd say it's the best chance we have. If your Briton really knows the lie of the land and its people, we stand a good ...
( Category: Ancient April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-22 | Author:Maurice Druon

The old man's sunken face looked sly for the last time. `I shall leave nothing in France but my bones, and they're of no great value,' he added. `France has ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-19 | Author:Steven Saylor

XII "So, you managed to endure them both in one day," said Calpurnia. "Which sister struck you as the more wicked?" The last rays of sunlight from the windows illuminated ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-26 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

Chapter Six The red ship was close and was coming fast. Her bows were crowned with a black-toothed dragon's head and filled with armed men in mail and helmets. She ...
( Category: Military April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-25 | Author:Steven Saylor

"Forty," announced Eco. Then he counted again, wagging his finger at each scraped mark on the earth wall in turn, moving his lips as he pronounced the numbers. Towards the ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

“We have to give him food, lord,” the priest said. “And men,” one of the villagers added. “Men?” “The young men go to him, lord. They serve on his ships.” ...
( Category: Military April 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Pressfield, Steven [Pressfield, Steven]

TWENTY I had watched the army marshal on the plain beneath Athena of the Brazen House perhaps fifty times over the previous nine years, in various strengths of call-up as ...
( Category: Military April 11,2014 )