epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Leon Uris [Uris, Leon]

• 23 • THE BATTLE OF MARATHON Early Summer 1891—Newport, Rhode Island Ben Boone made a perfunctory knock, then entered the adjoining office. It was clogged with half-full sea chests, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

Eight Alfred was buried. The burial took five hours of praying, chanting, weeping and preaching. The old king had been placed in an elm coffin painted with scenes from the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-27 | Author:Erich Maria Remarque

13. The traveling salesman Oskar Fuchs, called Weeping Oskar, is sitting in the office. "What's new, Herr Fuchs?" I ask. "How is the grippe progressing in the villages?" "Pretty harmless. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

PART TWO Fugitive It rained all night. It was a pelting rain driven by a cold wind that snatched the leaves from the oaks and chestnuts and swirled spite fully ...

mobi, epub, pdf | | 2009-12-23 | Author:Jeff Shaara

Meade stopped abruptly, had crossed a line. Grant said nothing, knew it was still a sore point with Meade, Burnside's Ninth under Grant's direct control, not a part of Meade's ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-07-03 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

Sir Guillaume had held the manor from its attackers for close on three months and did not doubt he could hold it indefinitely so long as the Count of Coutances ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2007-03-16 | Author:Annie Groves [Groves, Annie]

It was so late in the afternoon when they returned to the barracks that Sam thought she might miss the bus back to the billet. ‘Car behave OK for you?’ ...

epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Nadifa Mohamed [Mohamed, Nadifa]

“You’re late, Alfredo!” barked the Italian as Jama ran in one morning. He avoided looking at the angry red face. He had developed a terrible fear of invoking someone’s unrestrained ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-01-30 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

A rebel officer shouted a piercing warning. The swaying mainmast splintered and cracked. Canvas billowed down onto the deck and into the sea. The collapsing mast dragged in its wake ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Alistair MacLean

Neufeld, followed by Droshny, walked briskly and confidently into his radio hut, a bleak, ramshackle lean-to furnished with a table, two chairs, a large portable transceiver and nothing else. The ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1998-09-01 | Author:W. E. B. Griffin [Griffin, W. E. B.]

Casablanca, Morocco November 28, 1941 There was absolutely no doubt in the minds of the two agents of the French Sûreté, nor of their adviser, a Sturmführer of the SS-Sicherheitsdienst, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Susanna Moore [Moore, Susanna]

As all of our belongings had been lost, we were allowed to choose articles of clothing from the trunks stored in the cellar of the Pavilion (we looked through them ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-01-30 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

'Do you have tea?' One of them promised to bring him a cup and he joined Knowles on the raised rampart that formed the south-eastern corner of San Anton's courtyard. ...

epub |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Dewey Lambdin [Lambdin, Dewey]

Part V "Expulsis piratis—Restituta Commercia." "He expelled the pirates and restored commerce." —Former National Motto Of The Bahamas Chapter 1 Alan Lewrie was jealous. It was a novel experience for ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:James Aitcheson [Aitcheson, James]

Twenty I BURST INTO the hall, sending the door crashing against the inside of the wall. The snow billowed around me as, shaking violently, I stumbled in. My breath caught ...