Historical
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

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 25,2014 )
mobi | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

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 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Umberto Eco

I reopened my eyes some time later, and the moonlight, perhaps because of a cloud, had grown much fainter. I stretched out my hand at my side and no longer ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

PART THREE Nimue’s Curse Queen Igraine sat in my window and read the last sheets of parchment, sometimes asking me the meaning of a Saxon word, but otherwise saying nothing. ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

They had escaped Foulness, but not Colonel Girdwood's pursuit. Sharpe knew that even now horsemen would be riding towards the first ford or bridge over the Crouch and that he ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

He must be a sergeant and he must be able to read and write, but there's a third requirement too. The fellow must perform a quite impossibly gallant act. Leading ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-02-17 | Author:Neal Stephenson

Westminster Palace 25 JUNE 1714 THE HOUSE BEING INFORMED, That the Secretary of the South Sea Company attended; He was called in; and, at the Bar, presented to the House, ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

is no better sign of good health. Alas, it is not yours.” The doctor pushed open the window and poured the urine away. Swallow,” he instructed Thomas. Thomas’s mouth was ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf | | 1989-01-28 | Author:Amy Tan

Harold and I work at the same architectural firm, Livotny & Associates. Only Harold Livotny is a partner and I am an associate. We met eight years ago, before he ...
( Category: Friendship March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

The other method was to place a flat-headed nail on the victim's skull and then, with one massive blow of the palm, drive the nail six inches into the skull. ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2006-01-29 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

THE NOTE came well after dark. Sharpe was waiting with his men in an empty stall of the embassy stables. His five men were all in cheap civilian clothes and ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:William Dietrich [Dietrich, William]

Chapter 22 No one takes my advice, including my wife. This may be because of my tendency to fall into political tangles, military brawls, debt, and ill-considered romantic affairs, but ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-30 | Author:William Dietrich

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO If the hold of Dragut’s ship had been claustrophobic, and the slave market of Tripoli wretched, Omar’s dungeon was infinitely worse. Its tunnels had been hewn by Carthaginians, ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-16 | Author:Dietrich, William [Dietrich, William]

Despite Talma’s misgivings, I decided after careful consideration to leave the medallion with Enoch. I agreed with Astiza’s reasoning that it was safer in the cellar of an old scholar ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )