War & Military
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 11 Lieutenant of Marines Fytch, to whom Sharpe had hardly spoken since they had marched inland, brought the civilians to Major Sharpe. The Lieutenant herded them at pistol-point until ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-18 | Author:John Wilcox

It was nearly nightfall before they came to King Umtasa’s kraal. It was set in clear land on a slight rise that took it away from the swamp and the ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1972-02-07 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER NINE The Polychrest left her convoy in 38° 30' N., ll°W., with the wind at south-west and the Rock of Lisbon bearing S87E., 47 leagues. She fired a gun, ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-04-30 | Author:Conn Iggulden

Chapter 18 TEMUJIN WATCHED THE SUN pass overhead, its fire damped by heavy cloud, so that he was able to gaze on the orange disk with only a little discomfort. ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 11 “Not a day for cricket, eh, Sharpe?” Lieutenant-Colonel Ford shouted the jocular greeting, though his expression was hardly welcoming. The Colonel, with Major Vine beside him, crouched in ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Dudley Pope

She gave the hammaco another angry push. "You cannot buy more brandy because there is none to buy. You can use the money in your pocket to buy so much ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1999-03-30 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER SIX 'We therefore commit his body to the deep,' said Captain Aubrey, 'to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body (when the Sea shall give ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 8 The happy days followed. The far ship was indeed the Revenant. Chase had never seen the French warship at close quarters and, try as he might, he could ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-18 | Author:Jack Terral

CAMP TALATA 1445 HOURS LOCAL KUMANDAN sat cross-legged on the carpet in his tent, contentedly smoking his hookah water pipe. Mike Assad and Hafez Sabah, similarly seated, faced him. The ...
( Category: War February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:David Gemmell

XIX ____________________ WINGS OVER OLYMPOS I The days were becoming increasingly strange for Hekabe the queen. The statues that lined the garden path often smiled at her, and yesterday in ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 7 'Sharpe! Sharpe!' It was Colonel Gudin who, at nightfall, burst'into the barracks room. 'Come, quick! As you are, hurry!' 'What about me, sir?' Lawford asked. The Lieutenant had ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1998-02-28 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER SIX At Durazzo they stood out to sea, leaving the blaze on their larboard quarter and sailing across an uneventful sea with a fine topgallant breeze. But two days ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 7 Sharpe walked Jens away from the carnage. Once beyond the ditch and out of sight of the two redcoat battalions Sharpe pointed back toward the city. “Get into ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1970-05-06 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER Eight 'I am entirely at a loss, upon my honour; and so I lay the position before you, confiding wholly in your candour.. I am entirely at a loss: ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

PART THREE. "CAPTAIN d'Alembord!" Sharpe shouted. "Sir?" "You take over here, Dally," Sharpe said, "and I'll take your horse." The French brigade was forming a column. It could mean only ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )