Sea Stories
mobi, epub |eng | 1984-12-15 | Author:Alexander Kent

Both ships were evenly matched. Achates mounted more guns, but the enemy's heavier broadside was taking a terrible toll. One lucky shot was all it would take. He stared at ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1986-05-31 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX The Portsmouth night coach was an almost entirely naval concern, apart from the horses and one of the inside passengers, an elderly lady; the coachman had been in ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1981-05-31 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN 'And so, sir,' said Jack, 'I left them there and shaped a course for Barka, having first sent Dryad to inform you of their presence.' 'I see,' said ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1977-12-31 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX Knowing of the presence of a hostile ship of the line in the same ocean, the Leopard redoubled her attention to gunnery. Although the presence was remote and ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1999-03-31 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX 'We therefore commit his body to the deep,' said Captain Aubrey, 'to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body (when the Sea shall give ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-06 | Author:Thomas Steinbeck

AND THE SEA SHALL GIVE UP ITS DEAD “Wisdom is not a birthright, it is a treasured inheritance.” —CHINESE PROVERB NINETEEN NINETY-EIGHT WAS A TROUBLING year for young Charles Lucas, ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1962-01-01 | Author:C.S. Forester

Chapter 11 Hornblower had written the address, the date, and the word 'Sir' before he realized that the report would not be so easy to write. He was quite sure ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1953-01-01 | Author:C.S. Forester

Chapter XI These were the blue waters where history had been made, where the future of civilization had been decided, more than once and more than twice. Here Greek had ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1988-07-31 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX On the misty night of Thursday the Surprise kept a lookout aloft, and now from the foretopsail yard he called 'On deck, there. I think I see 'em.' ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1999-11-14 | Author:C. S. Forester

Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the Pretender to the Imperial Throne, was today nominated as a candidate in the elections about to be held for the Presidency of the French Republic. ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1959-01-01 | Author:C.S. Forester

CHAPTER XIII The fact that he had not taken off his clothes told Brown and Dobbs and Howard at dawn that Hornblower had not been as composed and self-confident as ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1979-04-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX It was with a feeling not unlike dread that Stephen followed Mrs Wogan into Franchon's hotel. The people behind the desk were talking French and this, together with ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1983-06-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN During the Niobe's return to Suez the usual northerly breezes blew with scarcely a pause; she had to beat up all the way, often tacking two or three ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1991-02-28 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN "No, no. Keep your sword and give me your hand," I said; and perhaps that may sound rather like Drury Lane, when the fellow in pink breeches and ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1977-12-08 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX There were no banquets at the Cape for Jack Aubrey; there were few kind words from the Admiral, either, although the Commodore had brought in all his squadron ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )

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