20th Century
epub |eng | 2020-12-08 | Author:Michael Kurland [Michael Kurland]

EIGHTEEN … And on the pedestal, these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay ...
( Category: World War II September 28,2022 )
mobi |eng | 2019-05-15 | Author:Fiona Ford

Later that afternoon, Alice along with Mary, Flo, Rose and Dot found themselves standing in Aggie’s front room around a piano, just as they had six months earlier for Flo’s ...
( Category: World War II September 25,2022 )
mobi |eng | 2018-11-15 | Author:Fiona Ford

Chapter Twenty-Two The bare branches and the plummeting late October temperatures echoed the empty feeling that had engulfed Mary for the past few days. Since she and David had been ...
( Category: World War II September 25,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-25 | Author:Catherine Taylor [Taylor, Catherine]

Louisa awoke with a start. She was still in the wooden bunkroom, but now it was daylight. She was freezing cold, even though she was still wearing the clothes from ...
( Category: World War I August 28,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-02-15 | Author:Todd, Charles [Todd, Charles]

11 It was just dawn when Rutledge walked out of the Abbey and went around to his motorcar. Even the gulls were quiet at this hour, and he had the ...
( Category: World War I August 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-02-16 | Author:Todd, Charles [Todd, Charles]

Again they walked in silence, taking the right fork of the road to a cottage that was just out of sight of the stone bridge. “My surgery,” Shepherd said wryly, ...
( Category: World War I August 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-06-08 | Author:Jack Murray [Murray, Jack]

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Sergeant O’Dowd relished this day on many levels. He would be rid of the latest batch of recruits. They would become someone else’s problem. A new lot would ...
( Category: World War II August 18,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Georgia Hill [Hill, Georgia]

Chapter Seventeen ‘What about here?’ Jake suggested. It was a hot July day with a cloudless sky and a gentle breeze. With the beach and town heaving, Jake and Ashley ...
( Category: World War II August 10,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Georgia Hill [Hill, Georgia]

Chapter Fourteen Eddie left early in the morning to head back to Bristol for a production meeting. Everyone, he said, was very happy with what had been filmed so far ...
( Category: World War II August 10,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Georgia Hill [Hill, Georgia]

Chapter Seventeen ‘Mam was worried silly about all the bombs,’ Ruby began. ‘Or the threat of them. That and the gas. Everyone thought the Germans would gas us like they ...
( Category: World War II August 10,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-10-12 | Author:Willem Frederik Hermans [Hermans, Willem Frederik]

* * * — Beumer carried on down the corridor; Alberegt went to his own office. Sitting at his desk, he said to himself, Countless possibilities, but all uncertain, premature. ...
( Category: 20th Century July 13,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ralf Rothmann

The times grew harder, and they who thought they had nothing left to lose, while famine persisted and pestilence laid people in the earth, lost even more. The author of ...
( Category: World War II July 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-07-15 | Author:Walter Kappacher

Passion and rapt enthusiasm the primal source, as in Jean Paul. (Passion remains in the subject, instead of entering the figures as in Balzac.) Fear of passion, so that it ...
( Category: World War I July 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-19 | Author:Victoria Cornwall [Cornwall, Victoria]

The bay was no more than seven miles from Wadebridge, but to Rose, who had no transport of her own, it may as well have been fifty. Nicholas parked his ...
( Category: World War I July 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-10-03 | Author:M.J. Trow [Trow, M.J.]

NINE The Senior Common Room had long ago been appropriated by the teaching staff. Originally, it had been built as a bolt-hole for graduates, but few of them ever turned ...
( Category: 20th Century June 23,2022 )