British & Irish
mobi |eng | 2005-03-01 | Author:Conn Iggulden

The Helvetii had no cavalry and Julius sent the extraordinarii out to hammer their lines as they tried desperately to re-form to repel the new attack. As Julius marched with ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 7 it was just before midday when a French soldier climbed the hill carrying a white flag of truce tied to the muzzle of his musket. Two officers accompanied ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
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 |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 |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Harry Sidebottom

XV The theatre of Ephesus can be seen from miles out at sea. The Venus came out of the early morning mist and there it was, directly ahead, its marble ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1983-06-29 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER SEVEN During the Niobe's return to Suez the usual northerly breezes blew with scarcely a pause; she had to beat up all the way, often tacking two or three ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1988-07-30 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER SIX On the misty night of Thursday the Surprise kept a lookout aloft, and now from the foretopsail yard he called 'On deck, there. I think I see 'em.' ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1995-07-30 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER SIX In the afternoon of Saturday, with the Berlings in sight on the larboard bow, the topgallant-sail breeze that had been bowling the Ringle along so handsomely since Cape ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1986-05-30 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER SIX The Portsmouth night coach was an almost entirely naval concern, apart from the horses and one of the inside passengers, an elderly lady; the coachman had been in ...
( Category: Crime February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-11 | Author:Agatha Christie

"It is true." Jackie said in a low voice: "I--I wanted her dead--and she is dead And what is worse---she died-- just like I said." "Yes, Mademoiselle. She was shot ...
( Category: Murder 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 | 2005-07-02 | Author:Terry Pratchett

The new daylight sloshed onto the world. Discworld light is old, slow and heavy; it roared across the landscape like a cavalry charge. The occasional valley slowed it for a ...
( Category: Humorous 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 )