Historical Fiction
epub |eng | 2023-04-03 | Author:Eoin Dempsey [Dempsey, Eoin]

11 Saturday, May 11, 1940 The crowds of fleeing refugees were on both sides of the road. With no word from the government on what they should do, they had ...
( Category: German June 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-02-15 | Author:Catherine Hemingway

Chapter 14 T he carriage to Holbourn made its way up Beechen Cliff and then took a road headed west along a rolling hill to a small estate overlooking Bath. ...
( Category: Regency June 2,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Reilly

17 He ducked and stepped from the teep and into the immediate joyous screams of the children. They ran to be near him. His entourage grew as they made their ...
( Category: Fantasy June 2,2023 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-12-10 | Author:Nancy Bilyeau [Bilyeau, Nancy]

Chapter 7 Helen barely spoke to her family that night, making the excuse of yet another headache. Nor could she eat more than a few bites of food, her appetite ...
( Category: Irish June 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-03-08 | Author:Elles Lohuis [Elles Lohuis]

twenty-four My stallion’s hooves patter like a fine drizzle on the stone slabs. It treads with care, as if it knows. I shift in the saddle, but fail to find ...
( Category: Asian June 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-13 | Author:William Burton McCormick [McCormick, William Burton]

***** August, 1920 Moscow ‘To Licis!’ Everybody raised their glasses for my toast. ‘May he and Karina never part!’ Licis laughed his hearty laugh. He, Juskevics and I each downed ...
( Category: Russian June 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-05-04 | Author:Liz Trenow [Trenow, Liz]

20 Baby Hans – named after Rosa’s father – was born on 27 May 1940, just as thousands of troops from the British Expeditionary Force were rescued from the beaches ...
( Category: Jewish June 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-04-04 | Author:Susanna Moore [Moore, Susanna]

* * * · · · Two Sisseton arrived at the agency this morning to tell Lieutenant Costello—they will no longer parley with Weems—that warriors would soon be arriving to fire a ...
( Category: United States June 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-02-09 | Author:Pip Williams

I collected every garment I’d been wearing, and Bastiaan watched me dress. I watched him watching. I slowed things down. I went to the mirror and rolled my hair, then ...
( Category: World War I June 2,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wilbur Smith

CALCUTTA, 1806 T he Mornington’s anchor dropped into the brown Hooghly river. Adam heard the splash and the gurgle of water as the flukes sank into the mud. There was ...
( Category: African June 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-03-10 | Author:Clay (epub)

Chapter 5 Lizzy couldn’t have been happier than she was right now. And since she’d been asked to be a bridesmaid to walk with Clay as an usher, she felt ...
( Category: African June 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-03-28 | Author:Stephanie Marie Thornton [Thornton, Stephanie Marie]

* * * • • • I did not write ahead to Gilbert with the dour news. No, instead I hoped to convince him that the evaporation of the silver ...
( Category: Biographical June 2,2023 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Donovan Cook [Cook, Donovan]

Bishop Bernard sighed as he walked into the dark library of Duke Liudolf. They had been back in Ehresburg, the duke’s capital, for two days, and so far the old ...
( Category: Ancient June 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-09-20 | Author:Stephen O. Sears

chapter sixteen The Orinoco Delta, July 1944 The clearing crew rose at dawn, ate a cold breakfast, and picked up machetes, axes, and brush hooks to hack away at the ...
( Category: World War II June 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-02-23 | Author:Ellen Keith

Twenty-Seven Liesbeth de Wit August 7, 1943 Amsterdam, the Netherlands Dirk had moored his boat to the side of the quay, not far from his house. Liesbeth reclined in the ...
( Category: World War II June 2,2023 )