The Great War Won: Who Desires Peace...: Volume 1 - Softcover

Loyd, James Emerson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0990576361 ISBN 13: 9780990576365

Verlag: James Emerson Loyd, 2015

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1918: The Great War, as it was becoming known, had reached an inflection point. The course of the war and the future of European civilization now rested on one decision: Would Germany, having prevailed in the East against a Russia crumbling into revolution and chaos, now attempt to crush her British and French enemies in one last desperate offensive before the emergent American Army arrived in its overwhelming force? Or could a small band of patriotic Germans led by a General and a Crown Prince use their high positions to influence their unyielding leadership to simply declare victory and withdraw homeward, leaving their opponents to justify a continuing and increasingly senseless slaughter? Their conspiracy gathers in such figures as Winston Churchill, the Communist firebrand Rosa Luxemburg and the Irish rebel leader Michael Collins along with an enigmatic Princess, an impetuous English Lord and a beautiful Belgian war refugee. Their story careens from swordfighting in France to a secret mission to London to Bolshevik-inspired upheavals in Berlin. Who Desires Peace..., the first book in the Great War Won trilogy, chronicles the schemes and adventures of the conspirators laying the foundations for their peace offensive; the second installment, ...Should Prepare for War, veers from Russia and Ukraine to the West as those peace efforts falter; the final volume, A Power of Recognized Superiority, traces the resumption and resolution of the war as America's looming presence finally tips the balance.

Biografía del autor:

James Emerson Loyd is a recovering architect and retired real estate executive, hardly apprenticeships to becoming an author of historical fiction. As an amateur historian of the twentieth century, he had long been fascinated by the First World War and how Germany's collapse in 1918 led to Europe's descent into totalitarianism. So, after reading and re-reading some Clancy and Crichton and Furst along with his histories, one day he decided to write his first novel. With a rough idea of a subject -- how that collapse could have been prevented -- he sat down at the keyboard and began writing. Before long he found himself simply taking dictation from his characters as they grew into the storyline, and a thousand pages later, he was done. A San Antonio native, he spent twenty-five years away from home then returned after marrying his high school sweetheart. They live with their two dogs (one French pointer, one German schnauzer, appropriately) in their old neighborhood.

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• Verlag: James Emerson Loyd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0990576361
• ISBN 13: 9780990576365
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 420