Historical Fiction
epub |eng | | Author:Patricia McClure

Paul entered the church late. Jacob noticed he sat as far from the community as one possibly could in an octagonal room. After Mass, Paul stood in the atrium glaring ...
( Category: World War I July 11,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-05-28 | Author:Yael van der Wouden

10 FOR A BEAT, THE DISTANCE to the bed stretched like an open field, a thin horizon; she looked at it and did not know how long it would take ...
( Category: Jewish July 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-01-24 | Author:Mark deMeza [deMeza, Mark]

It was around noon the following day when Walter made his way into the theater auditorium. He thought it was desperately sad to see this once-lovely space converted into a ...
( Category: World War I July 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-05-12 | Author:Chris Durbin [Durbin, Chris]

Chapter Sixteen Soundings Wednesday, Thirtieth of June 1762. Dartmouth’s Yawl, at Sea, off the Morro Castle, Havana. The oars made barely a sound as they levered against the canvas-wrapped thole ...
( Category: European July 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-05-14 | Author:Elise M. Stone [Stone, Elise M.]

“Would you open the door, Elisabeth?” She rose from her chair and did as she was asked, her mind still pondering Titus’s revelations. She must have been so preoccupied with ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense July 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-12-21 | Author:Sam Burnell [Burnell, Sam]

Myles knew the owner of the black powder mill at Rotherhithe, he was one Benton Lee, and from time to time, they had dealings together. The Tower was the only ...
( Category: Renaissance July 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-05-27 | Author:C.J. Hellman

Chapter 23 ‘I’ve got something for you, Sato, if you’ve got a bit of time.’ ‘I can make it,’ came the reply faintly, almost lost in the bad connection. ‘Good. ...
( Category: Japanese July 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-05-16 | Author:DG Barford [Barford, DG]

Chapter 30 Reinhold Rosenberg had called another meeting of the Office of Civilian Defense. The assembly included the mayor, local police, and armed forces personnel. They gathered in City Hall, ...
( Category: Military July 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-04-25 | Author:Griff Hosker [Hosker, Griff]

Chapter 12 The earl gave me fifteen men at arms and twelve archers from Middleham as well as five knights and their squires from the manors around Middleham. I could ...
( Category: Military July 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-05-17 | Author:Robin Burnage [Burnage, Robin]

Chapter Fourteen Enemies Engaged With the Bight of Benin and the Gulf of Guinea now in her wake, Thunder passed the territories of Gabon and Loango. After what they’d seen ...
( Category: European July 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-04-24 | Author:Christian Cameron [Cameron, Christian]

PART IV Megara and Outremer 1374 Whilom, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duc that highte Theseus; Of Atthenes he was lord and governour, And in his tyme ...
( Category: Medieval July 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-05-10 | Author:Natalia Kurki [Kurki, Natalia]

✽✽✽ Only a few weeks later, the news began to creep into Finland. Newspapers wrote about home searches in Estonia. People had been fired from their jobs and interrogated. But ...
( Category: European July 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-06-04 | Author:Penelope Dow [Dow, Penelope]

Chapter 11 A New Enterprise 1805 The smell of incense filled the cramped captain’s cabin of the Red Dragon. Shi Yang looked over the ledgers, trying to ignore the cannon ...
( Category: Chinese July 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-07-15 | Author:Sarah Hawkswood

Chapter Ten Walkelin did not dawdle, for he was eager to return and hear all that his superiors learnt without it being at second hand, but he felt a little ...
( Category: Medieval July 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-08 | Author:Reay Tannahill [Tannahill, Reay]

5 TOWCESTER, St Albans, Barnet … ‘Only T-t-tewkesbury missing,’ Francis volunteered as they descended Highgate Hill and saw the whole of London spread out before them, its skyline dominated by ...
( Category: Biographical July 9,2024 )