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  • Where Eagles Never Flew
    Helena P Schrader
    Relive the Battle of Britain through the eyes of pilots, controllers, and ground crews on both sides of the Channel - and through the eyes of the women they loved.Summer 1940: The Battle of France is over; the Battle of Britain is about to begin. If the swastika is not to fly over Buckingham Palace, the RAF must prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over Great Brit...
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    26,10 €

  • Cold War
    Helena P Schrader
    Stopping Russian Aggression with milk, coal and candy bars....Berlin is under siege. More than two million civilians must be supplied by air or surrender to Stalin’s oppression.USAF Captain J.B. Baronowsky and RAF Flight Lieutenant Kit Moran once risked their lives to drop high explosives on Berlin. They are about to deliver milk, flour and children’s shoes instead. Meanwhile, ...
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    22,57 €

  • Cold Victory
    Helena P. Schrader
    You know you’re winning when the enemy turns to dirty tricks ....The Berlin Airlift teeters on the brink of collapse. As the Allies desperately fight to keep the city alive against a relentless Soviet blockade, the Soviets turn to dirty tricks that don’t stop short of murder. Soon Wing Commander Robin Priestman, RAF station commander at Gatow, faces every commander’s worst nigh...
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    27,11 €

  • The Tale of the English Templar
    Helena P Schrader
    An escaped Templar, an old crusader, and a discarded brideembark on a quest for justice in the face of tyranny. An English Templar travelling to Cyprus is one of thousands arrested on Friday 13 October 1307. Victims of Philip IV’s greed for the Order’s legendary riches, they are cruelly tortured. The English knight becomes the first non-French Templar to confess to the trumped-...
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    26,47 €

  • Cold Peace
    Helena P. Schrader
    Amazon #1 Best Seller | Winner of Multiple Awards (e.g., Independent Press Award, Feathered Quill Gold)Berlin, 1948: The wartime Allies are at each other’s throats, and the prize is Berlin. Is a new war about to start?In the bombed-out ruins of post-WWII Berlin, hope is on the brink of extinction. The economy is crippled, the currency worthless, and the Soviet Union casts a hun...
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    25,25 €

  • Balian d’Ibelin
    Helena P. Schrader / Helena PSchrader
    Book I in the Award-Winning Jerusalem TrilogyB.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree, Historical Novel Society Editor's ChoiceHollywood made him a blacksmith; Arab chronicles said he was "like a king."He served a leper, but defied Richard the Lionheart.He was a warrior and a diplomat both.This is the first book of a three-part biography of the historical Balian d'Ibelin. ...
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    25,90 €

  • The Last Crusader Kingdom
    Helena P. Schrader / Helena PSchrader
    John d'Ibelin, son of the legendary Balian, will one day defy the most powerful monarch on earth. But first he must survive his apprenticeship as squire to a man determined to build a kingdom on an island ravaged by rebellion. The Greek insurgents have already driven the Knights Templar from the island, and now stand poised to destroy Richard the Lionheart's legacy to t...
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    24,43 €

  • Defender of Jerusalem
    Helena P. Schrader / Helena PSchrader
    The Christian kingdom of Jerusalem is under siege. The charismatic Kurdish leader, Salah ad-Din, has succeeded in uniting Shiite Egypt with Sunnite Syria and has now declared jihad against the Christian kingdom. While King Baldwin IV struggles to defend his kingdom from the external threat despite the increasing ravages of leprosy, the struggle for the succession threatens to t...
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    30,47 €

  • A Heroic King
    Helena P. Schrader / Helena PSchrader
    Come and take them!Book III in the Leonidas TrilogyPersia has crushed the Ionian revolt and is gathering a massive army to invade and punish mainland Greece, but in Sparta the dangers seem closer to home. The Eurypontid king Demaratus is accused of being a usurper, while the Agiad king Cleomenes is going dangerously mad. More and more Spartans turn to Leonidas, Cleomenes's ...
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    30,26 €

  • A Peerless Peer
    Helena P. Schrader / Helena PSchrader
    Sparta at the start of the fifth century BC is in crisis. The Argives are attacking Sparta's vulnerable island of Kythera, but King Cleomenes is more interested in meddling in Athenian affairs. His co-monarch, King Demaratus, opposes Cleomenes' ambitions, and soon the kings are at each other's throats. Exploiting this internal conflict, Corinth launches a challenge ...
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    30,44 €

  • A Boy of the Agoge
    Helena P. Schrader / Helena PSchrader
    The smaller of twins, born long after two elder brothers, Leonidas was considered an afterthought from birth -- even by his mother. Lucky not to be killed for being undersized, he was not raised as a prince like his eldest brother, Cleomenes, who was heir to the throne, but instead had to endure the harsh upbringing of ordinary Spartan youth. Barefoot, always a little hungry, a...
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    16,71 €

  • Spartan Slave, Spartan Queen
    Helena P. Schrader / Helena PSchrader
    In ancient Sparta during the Second Messenian War, two women, one beautiful and one ugly, are captured and enslaved in the same raid. This is the story of how each responds to their new situation and the women they meet in Sparta. Niobe’s beauty is so great that it captures the attention of the Messenian leader, Aristomenes. He makes her a cherished concubine-until the Spartan ...
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    14,76 €

  • Are They Singing in Sparta?
    Helena P Schrader
    Messenia is in revolt, and the Messenians have been out-witting Sparta’s crack troops. On the advice of Delphi, Sparta requests that Athens appoint a new Supreme Commander for Sparta’s army. Athens intentionally selects an obscure schoolmaster unlikely to help Sparta win the war, Tyrtaios. Tyrtaios was born lame, has no military experience, and everything he has ever heard abou...
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    18,55 €

  • The Olympic Charioteer
    Helena P Schrader
    Two cities at war –Two men with Olympic ambitions -And one slave – the finest charioteer in GreeceSet in archaic Greece, and based on incidents recorded in Herodotus, this is the tale of a young man’s journey from tragedy to triumph – and the story of the founding of the first non-aggression pact in recorded history: the Peloponnesian League.Award-winning novelist Helena P. Sch...
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    17,78 €