Historical
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Follett, Ken - Century Trilogy [Trilogy, Follett, Ken - Century]

{ 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: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Tessa Harris [Harris, Tessa]

Trapped in a prison of her own making, Lady Lydia Farrell wrote the fifth and final draft of a letter from the confinement of her darkened bedchamber. My Beloved Thomas, ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Conn Iggulden [Iggulden, Conn]

The Senate watched each change of expression in the young man before them. He had answered every question and they had been impressed. His lineage was beyond reproach. Only his ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Nadifa Mohamed [Mohamed, Nadifa]

“You’re late, Alfredo!” barked the Italian as Jama ran in one morning. He avoided looking at the angry red face. He had developed a terrible fear of invoking someone’s unrestrained ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-12 | Author:Patrick O'Brian [O'Brian, Patrick]

and those who remained could hope for no countenance or advancement. Their clerks were taken from them, their rooms were given to others, and they were lodged in mean holes ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1990-08-27 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

"The people did not like me." she went on. "They hate people to be in command if they are not of their blood. They said Henry could not beget a ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-17 | Author:Julia Gregson

Part Three Scutari and the Crimea Chapter 37 Constantinople, November 2, 1854 They traveled east in an old mail boat called the Vectis, and as it drifted toward the shore, ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1968-01-02 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

When Alexander heard the news he became frantic with anxiety that some ill might befall his mistress. He hastily collected the money, which was despatched at once. Then, trembling with ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-30 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

'Quiet!' the officer said wearily. 'You are nothing except what we make you. So why are you here?' 'Why do you think?' Sharpe said. The officer looked at him. 'I ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-01-30 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

A rebel officer shouted a piercing warning. The swaying mainmast splintered and cracked. Canvas billowed down onto the deck and into the sea. The collapsing mast dragged in its wake ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-30 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

El Castrador nodded. "The bull rose?" "A horn in the small of the man's back," Sharpe confirmed. "Well, I am the bull, señor, and I confess to being wounded, but ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Ariana Franklin [Franklin, Ariana]

When she woke up, it was afternoon. Mansur had gone back to the men’s guesthouse to rest. Gyltha was sitting beside the bed, knitting—a skill she’d picked up from one ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-08 | Author:Ruth Downie [Downie, Ruth]

Chapter 41 “I am only saying what you are both thinking,” declared Sabina, pushing away the bowl of dates whose shape and color had reminded her that this place might ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2004-04-14 | Author:Julian Stockwin [Stockwin, Julian]

Port Royal town was old, a sea town with a gaudy past, and its superfluity of sailor taverns gave pleasing choice for their reunion. The early hour of the afternoon ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

Chapter IX ISABELLA RECEIVES CHRISTOBAL COLON Margaret went about the Palace like a sad, pale ghost. She had lost her Flemish gaiety; she seemed always to be looking back into ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )