Historical Fiction
epub |eng | 2023-06-05 | Author:John Rhodes [Rhodes, John]

Sixteen “Fifteen minutes to La Pallice, skipper,” Drewno said. “Saint-Nazaire and the mouth of the Loire are a minute ahead. There are airfields at Saint-Nazaire and Nantes, and I assume ...
( Category: German January 28,2024 )
epub | | | Author:Clare Gutierrez

CHAPTER 7 BY NOW, THE SUN’S LIGHT JUST BARELY GRAZED the cliff trail. The sound of someone approaching drifted to the women. The narrow trail would not allow anyone to ...
( Category: Renaissance January 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-06-29 | Author:James Calbraith [Calbraith, James]

CHAPTER X THE LAY OF HERACLIUS We ride slowly through the empty streets of Lutetia, the flag of truce a limp rag tied to my lance. Wary eyes of Croha’s ...
( Category: Norse & Icelandic January 28,2024 )
epub, pdf | | | Author:Greg Olear

XXXI The Fugitives BY NOW, THE CAREFUL READER CAN APPRECIATE JUST HOW precarious and mercurial are the forces that make and unmake Emperors (and also, by extension, Empresses!). Consider: If ...
( Category: Medieval January 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-23 | Author:James Philip [Philip, James]

Chapter 8 Friday 24th September, 1943 The Rectory, Ansham Wolds, Lincolnshire Eleanor opened the gate and shepherded Johnny and Emmy along the path to the Rectory. Retrieving the key from ...
( Category: Military January 28,2024 )
epub | | | Author:Patrick Chamoiseau

* * * and therefore, thinking about the mirror on that day, I ran toward my main cave and started to rummage through my stores, baskets, countless boxes, chests and ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage January 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-06-29 | Author:J C Duncan [Duncan, J C]

Chapter 21 To the Victors The victorious raiding party returned to Vatnsborð in high spirits. Jarl Gustav welcomed them back, and after conferring with the leaders, immediately ordered another raid, ...
( Category: Norse & Icelandic January 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-12-04 | Author:Matthew Legare [Legare, Matthew]

***** The Lee Building was only a few blocks from the Fascist Party headquarters, but in this heat it felt like trekking across the Sahara. Frenchtown stank with the rancid ...
( Category: Chinese January 28,2024 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anthea Hodgson [Hodgson, Anthea]

( Category: Australian & Oceanian January 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-12-29 | Author:Clayton, Keir [Clayton, Keir]

* * * The sound of squabbling gulls, fighting over the scraps of food discarded from their previous day’s meal, woke Gallus with a start. Lucius was already up and ...
( Category: German January 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cindy Burkart Maynard [Author]

10 I f the streets of the town had been narrow and winding, the streets of the Jewish quarter were downright serpentine, curving and recurving, crossing each other at peculiar ...
( Category: Medieval January 28,2024 )
epub |eng | | Author:Julia Kelly

TWENTY-TWO Finally free from my duties, I retrieved my handbag, discreetly slipped my notebook into the top of my right stocking, and, for the second time that day, made the ...
( Category: World War II January 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:David Pilling [Pilling, David]

21. To the false knight Sir Eustace Folville, lord of Ashby Folville and Teigh, greetings. Know that I have taken Dame Alice Folville a prisoner, and shall hang her from ...
( Category: Military January 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Francis Mulhern [Mulhern, Francis]

“We need thirty seconds” called Marcus “wait” he pleaded. The urgency in his eyes caused Cossus to stand, staring at Marcus before nodding. “OK” he said “But we cannot afford ...
( Category: European January 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-12-18 | Author:Autieri, Jerry [Autieri, Jerry]

14 D iorix repeated his offer in his native tongue. Varro knew this from the stares of Albus’s men. But Albus himself roared back defiance, raising his fist to his ...
( Category: Military January 28,2024 )