Model Number: BBAL1412107547DLDA
Author: Henry, G. A.
My series of stories dealing with the wars of England would be altogether incomplete did it not include the period when the Romans were the masters of the country. The valour with which the natives of this island defended themselves was acknowledged by the Roman historians, and it was only the superior ...more »
Model Number: BBAL141212395XDLDA
Author: Major, Charles
Like the Israelites of old, mankind is prone to worship false gods, and persistently sets up the brazen image of a sham hero, as its idol. I should like to write the history of the world, if for no other reason than to assist several well-established heroes down from their pedestals. Great Charlemagne ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412107725DLDA
Author: Henry, G. A.
Very bright and pretty, in the early springtime of the year 1857, were the British cantonments of Sandynugghur. As in all other British garrisons in India, they stood quite apart from the town, forming a suburb of their own. They consisted of the barracks, and of a maidan, or, as in England it would ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412107636DLDA
Author: Henry, G. A.
The mysterious loss of a large portion of the treasure of the Incas has never been completely cleared up. By torturing the natives to whom the secret had been entrusted, the Spaniards made two or three discoveries, but there can be little doubt that these finds were only a small proportion of the total ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412107660DLDA
Author: Henry, G. A.
The events that took place during the latter half of the fourteenth century and the first half of the fifteenth are known to us far better than those preceding or following them, owing to the fact that three great chroniclers, Froissart, Monstrelet, and Holinshed, have recounted the events with a fulness ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412107601DLDA
Author: Henry, G. A.
My dear lads: Although so long a time has elapsed since the great civil war in England, men are still almost as much divided as they were then as to the merits of the quarrel, almost as warm partisans of the one side or the other. Most of you will probably have formed an opinion as to the rights of the ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1920741186DLDA
Author: Schembra, John
June 1967. As Vincent Torelli stepped off the plane at Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam, he was almost overwhelmed by the stench in the hot, humid air. He still had a hard time realizing he was in Vietnam. Drafted into the armed forces five months earlier, he ended up becoming a Military Policeman, assigned ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1554436168DLDA
Author: Pyle,Howard
The year 1400 opened with more than usual peacefulness in England. Only a few months before, Richard II - weak, wicked, and treacherous - had been dethroned, and Henry IV declared King in his stead. But it was only a seeming peacefulness, lasting but for a little while; for though King Henry proved himself ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412124344DLDA
Author: Muhlbach, Louise
he Empress Anna was dead, and - an unheard-of case in Russian imperial history - she had even died a natural death. Again was the Russian imperial throne vacated! Who is there to mount it? whom has the empress named as her successor? No one dared to speak of it; the question was read in all eyes, but ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1587494027DLDA
Author: Bliss, L. R.
Book III of the Battle Cry of Freedom Trilogy: The Union Army has burned the Shenandoah Valley, leaving the people filled with hatred for anyone who has northern ties. Even so Nathan Wendall falls in love with a fine northern woman, Sally Dartland, who has recently moved to the valley after her family ...more »
