“I wish most heartily that something would happen,” Harry Parkhurst, a midshipman of some sixteen years of age, said to his chum, Dick Balderson, as they leaned on the rail of her majesty's gunboat Serpent, and looked gloomily at the turbid...
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Flying Colours describes the adventures of Horatio Hornblower and his companions escaping from imprisonment in Napoleonic France and returning to England.
It was originally published in 1938 as the third in the series, but is ninth by...
Follow your hearts. They will lead you home.
Leaf-bare has fallen once more, threatening all cats with hunger and cold. Meanwhile, the message from the spirit-cats remains the same: in order to survive, they must grow and spread like the Blazing...
Автор: Корнуэлл Бернард
Серия: Sharpe #13
Язык: английский
Год: 1982
Статус: Закончена
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Sharpe's Company set January to April 1812 during the Peninsular...
Автор: Фрейзер Джордж Макдональд
Серия: Flashman Papers #11
Язык: английский
Год: 2000
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Eleventh in the series, Flashman and the Tigerfeatures not one, but three stories of international intrigue that find the fictional Flashman thrown headlong into historical events around the world.
This time out Flashman is thwarting an...
Язык: английский
Год: 1991
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В книге рассказывается о животном и растительном мире, путешествиях, о работе ученых в далеких экспедициях. В очерках описываются...
When an officer of the British Security Service is murdered in Switzerland, James Bond becomes involved in a deadly game of hide and seek. He follows a sinister shadow across the world, from Athens to Milan, Singapore, the USA and ultimately to...
After nearly losing his life in Africa, retired Army Ranger and historian John Holliday is ready for some R&R back in the U.S. But when a disheveled Russian called Genrikhovich intercepts him in the airport, Holliday's homecoming will have to...
Автор: Корнуэлл Бернард
Серия: Sharpe #21
Язык: английский
Год: 2006
Статус: Закончена
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The last book, chronologically, in the Sharpe series is set four years after the events of Sharpe's Waterloo. Richard Sharpe has retired to live on the farm in Normandy with his common-law wife Lucille Castineau. Patrick Harper has a bar in...
AD 98: The bustling army base at Vindolanda lies on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world.
In just over twenty years time, the Emperor Hadrian will build his famous wall. But for now defences are weak as tribes rebel...