Historical
epub |eng | 1982-01-01 | Author:John Banville [Banville, John]

In moments like that you can feel memory gathering its material, beady-eyed and voracious, like a demented photographer. I don’t mean the big scenes, the sunsets and car crashes, I ...
( Category: British & Irish March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-27 | Author:Anne Perry [Perry, Anne]

The next day was just like any other, except that Gracie had more jobs to do than ever, and her gran was busy trying to make a Christmas for them ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alexander Kent [Kent, Alexander]

11 DAWN ATTACK THROUGHOUT the following day the nightmare passage across the swamp continued with the sun always there to add to the slow torture. Poling from the boats, or ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-14 | Author:Alexander Kent [Kent, Alexander]

Without looking at his watch Bolitho knew it was close on noon. The sun which had been in his face since early dawn now blazed down from directly overhead with ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-16 | Author:Anne Perry [Perry, Anne]

PITT CEASED TO STRUGGLE. At first, in the heat of the moment, there was no point. He was in the grasp of two burly constables, both convinced they had apprehended ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:Anne Perry [Perry, Anne]

Bessie was looking after Lucien, who was lying close to the stove. Henry Rathbone sat in the corner with Squeaky and Crow, who were huddled in their coats. They were ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-10-25 | Author:Anne Perry [Perry, Anne]

They set out immediately after breakfast, Mrs. Naylor’s household providing them with transport by pony and trap as far as Inverness and then beyond to the eastern end of Loch ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:James Clavell [Clavell, James]

She glanced at her watch… It was 9:23.
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-03 | Author:Philip Kerr [Kerr, Philip]

I thought of all the excuses for what had happened in Lutsk. That I wasn’t to know they were Jews. That they were murderers. That they had killed nearly three ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-07-21 | Author:Sven Hassel [HASSEL, SVEN]

‘Let me see,’ said the Legionnaire, ‘I was nineteen when I saw my first execution. It was at Casablanca, I remember. Some idiot who’d been twelve years in the army ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-03-16 | Author:Annie Groves [Groves, Annie]

It was so late in the afternoon when they returned to the barracks that Sam thought she might miss the bus back to the billet. ‘Car behave OK for you?’ ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Laurie R. King [King, Laurie R.]

THIRTEEN …The reader is tripping over uncertain ground, not knowing what is to be accepted and what rejected. —A Book of Dartmoor « ^ » When I took my leave ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Laurie R. King [King, Laurie R.]

THIRTEEN ν nu « ^ » The rain started during the night, in its typical understated London fashion. The grumble of distant thunder grew imperceptibly from the dying roar of ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-05-13 | Author:James Robertson [Robertson, James]

James Mitchel clung to her on the narrow bed of the cell. She felt the wooden planks beneath her, unyielding and hard. James grunted and came into her. Had she ...
( Category: Ghosts March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Ken Follett [Follett, Ken]

{ III } Private Robin Mortimer was angry. “This is fucking stupid,” he said when they heard the crackle of machine guns. “We should have gone over in the dark. ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 26,2014 )