Four families, from vastly different rungs of England's social ladder, endure the Great War and other trials. And a long-held secret lies locked away within the walls of Hadleigh Hall.     In the summer of 1914, life continues apace in old familiar patterns. As Lord Hadleigh plans his annual grouse shoot and his wife and daughter choose their wardrobes for a voyage to America, their stableman, Sam Harding, tries to make ends meet as he and his wife, Kate, await the birth of their first child.     In a nearby town, the Burgess brothers - Charlie, a socialist miner, and Matthew, a lay minister with an unshakable faith - watch their father die, slowly suffocating from the coal dust in his lungs.     In London, Sir Henry Driver, a self-made clothing manufacturer, subsidizes his wife's social ambitions while their daughter, Charlotte, fights for the vote for women alongside Emily Hill, a poor East Ender. Meanwhile, Tom White, a bored accounting clerk, dreams of adventure, little suspecting what will befall him.     By the end of the decade, their lives will be interwoven and forever changed as their fates are tossed into the maelstrom of war. And a horrific tragedy will finally unlock the secret of Hadleigh Hall.

Through the Dark Clouds Shining: A Saga of Families and the Great War

Literature & Fiction

Homer, A.R.

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A Secret So Colossal It Will Decide Who Wins the War...May, 1944: The world holds its breath as the Allies prepare to launch their all-important invasion of Europe. The invasion plan is a secret that must be kept at all costs, but the secret is beset from all sides: a sleeper spy in England, a disaster during an invasion rehearsal, a double-dealing French Resistance leader, a ruthlessly-obsessed Gestapo head. And, for an American intelligence officer, it is a race against time to save both the secret and the woman he loves.And now the secret's safety hangs upon two things: Operation First Violin, the brainchild of the chief English spymaster, and a French orphan girl seeking to find escape from a world that has dealt her terrible blows.Played out in England and Normandy over two weeks that will decide the course of history, The Sobs of Autumn's Violins is a tale of suspense, courage, and love that builds to a stunning double climax.

The Sobs of Autumn's Violins

A Secret So Colossal It Will Decide Who Wins the War... May, 1944:The world holds its breath as the Allies prepare to launch their all-important invasion of Europe. The invasion plan is a secret that must be kept at all costs, but the secret is beset from all sides: a sleeper spy in England, a disaster during an invasion rehearsal, a double-dealing French Resistance leader, a ruthlessly-obsessed Gestapo head. And, for an American intelligence officer, it is a race against time to save both the secret and the woman he loves. And now the secret's safety hangs upon two things: Operation First Violin, the brainchild of the chief English spymaster, and a French orphan girl seeking to find escape from a world that has dealt her terrible blows. Played out in England and Normandy over two weeks that will decide the course of history, The Sobs of Autumn's Violins is a tale of suspense, courage, and love that builds to a stunning double climax. A newer, less expensive edition is available - "See all 4 formats and editions," above

Literary

Aeon Pub Inc

Hitler's best chance for victory may come from the least likely quarter... When Hitler's elite Uranium Club hesitates to build the weapon that willensure Nazi victory, SS officer Max Heldorf devises an ingeniouslydevious plan that includes assembling a shadow team of scientistsdrawn from the death camps. Heldorf becomes distracted by the beauty of Dr. Hannah Goldmann, the project's lynchpin, whounwittingly presents him with a dilemma that threatens the project, adilemma that will take all his deceit and cunning to resolve. Meanwhile, American agent Christina Lindgren runs afoul of the Gestapo and istrapped with vital intelligence - and an injured stranger, a member ofthe Danish Resistance. They pool their strengths to escape and toorganize the greatest resistance operation of all time - the rescue ofall of Denmark's Jews. Preoccupied with the dangers of theirundertaking, made more perilous by a traitor in their midst, neitherrealizes they have also come across a secret of monumental proportions:the plans for Hitler's atomic bomb. 'See all 4 formats,' above, for new, less expensive edition.

The Devil's Alchemists

Contemporary

Aeon Publishing Inc.

The Third Reich is collapsing. The rules have changed.There are no rules. Nazi Germany, 1945. Hitler Youth on suicide missions...old men hanged for desertion ...marauding slave laborers...homeless Germans clogging roads...and looted art hidden everywhere. As Hitler's Germany thrashes in its death throes, Lt. Gina Cortazzo follows close behind the American front to rescue art stolen by the Nazis. Her success awaits the capture of Alt Aussee, the salt mine where the thousands of stolen masterpieces in Hitler's private collection are hidden. But SS Brigadeführer Reinhard Hofmann is also heading there with his crack forces, on his way to establish a final fortress where Nazism can hold out. And he is ready to carry out the Führer's final order: destroy the entire collection, should it be in danger of falling into enemy hands. Look Long into the Abyss paints a chilling and vivid picture of the last days of World War II. The cast of characters includes Sgt. Bill Terrill, who saves Gina's life as they cross paths with suicidal Hitlerjugend; Frieda, the mother of a Hitler Youth fighting with Hofmann; Stanislaus, the Polish slave laborer with whom Frieda and her daughter form an unlikely alliance; and Father Hieronymus, the abbot whose monastery harbors more than one dangerous secret. Throughout the chaos, Raphael's Portrait of a Young Man weaves a spell. Thieved from thieves, lost then found, the priceless work alters the lives of Frieda, Stanislaus, and Gina...and others caught in the maelstrom. A newer, cheaper edition of this novel is available - "See all 4 formats and editions," above

Look Long Into the Abyss

The Mirror of Diana: A Novel of War and Love

The time is 1943, a time of war. The place is the hill-perched town of Nemi, in the Alban Hills south of Rome, overlooking the crater lake where, 2000 years before, the Roman emperor Caligula sailed his gigantic ships to the Temple of Diana.Just a few years before the war, the ancient ships, sunk after Caligula's death, were miraculously recovered from the lake and placed in a lakeside museum. Paolo, the museum curator, now struggles to protect these treasures from Allied bombs and the depredations of the Germans in a world where the struggle for simple survival makes such efforts seem irrelevant.He watches with disquiet as the German occupation brings together Rosanna, his daughter, whose innocence is brutalized by the horrors of the war, and Klaus, a German officer whose high ideals and love for Rosanna cause him soul-wrenching conflicts of loyalty. Love? Or duty?A newer, cheaper edition is available - "See all 5 formats and editions," above.

Romance

Historical

Llumina Pr

A haunting love story in a gripping war thriller. . .  The Mirror of Diana, with its lightening pace and stunning plot twists, is the poignant story of Klaus and Rosanna's secret love, told against the backdrop of war-torn Italy.

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Through the Dark Clouds Shining: A Saga of Families and the Great War

The Sobs of Autumn's Violins

The Sobs of Autumn's Violins

The Devil's Alchemists

Look Long Into the Abyss

The Mirror of Diana: A Novel of War and Love

The Mirror of Diana: A Novel of War and Love