Storm That Shook the World (Family Saga, 2, Band 2) - Softcover

Soellner, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1630478636 ISBN 13: 9781630478636

Verlag: Morgan James Fiction, 2016

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"Kalvarianhof: The Storm That Shook the World" is the second of a four-book series, following up on "Kalvarianhof: The Long Way Home." This second story revolves around the friendship, loyalty, adventures, and love--sometimes forbidden--that two German families experience together in early 20th-century Germany and Africa.

Family friends for generations, Catholic Markus and Jewish Levi--young men newly home from adventures in China--find themselves and their ladies living the last wonderfully romantic days of the Belle Epoch, the Beautiful Era, before the beginning of the first World War in 1914. The two men, swept up by the Great War, find themselves far from the trenches of France, but no less safe in the wilds and wars as soldiers in Kaiser Wilhelm’s African colonies.

Meanwhile back at Kalvarianhof, the grand Levi estate deep in the forests of Bavaria, the families left behind struggle with hardships and dangers unforeseen. In Africa too, loved ones face betrayal and terror that threatens their very lives.

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Walter Soellner, author of "Kalvarianhof: The Perilous Journey", whose parents were from Germany and whose relatives live near Munich, which he has visited there often. Kalvarianhof is based on his family estate. Walter is a professor of Art/Art History, and has lectured 80 times in each of the Bay Area’s Art Museums. He is a predigest lover/reader of 19th, 20th century history, a art Collector of Asian/European and militaria of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He has taught in China, visiting sites mentioned in this volume: Tanzania, Lisbon, etc. Boards: S.J. Art Commission, Victorian Pres. Assoc., Retired Faculty Assoc., S. University Neighborhood Assoc.

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Sailing south from the city of Bremerhaven, a major port for Imperial Germany, in a reverse route Markus had traveled seven years earlier, the young Imperial German officer leaned on the familiar railing of a naval cruiser and watched the coast of France slip by.

The SMS Konigsberg, loaded to the gunwales with supplies for Germany’s four African colonies, plowed through late September swells, bringing troops, military supplies, settlers, food, and beer--lots of good German beer--to the thirsty colonials in Africa.

Markus Mathias, newly minted lieutenant of His Majesty, the German Emperor, King of Prussia, William II, was bound for the Imperial German colony of South West Africa. This was Markus’s third trip to this wild and primitive land on the south west coast of the Dark Continent. He enjoyed his first trip with his friend Levi in 1898 as teenagers on an adventurous holiday. His second trip, Christmas of 1900, was the coaling stop on the return of his military unit after the Boxer Rebellion in China.

Now, in the autumn of 1909, this third journey was to be the start of a new life after the tragedy of his lost love with Levi’s sister, Ilsa. Yes, they agreed, both teary-eyed, that it could never be--a Jewish girl and a Catholic man. Catholic Bavaria in general and their social and professional circles were not ready to accept a union so mixed, no matter how true the love. And, of course, the families would have had none of it--if they had known.

So Markus, now twenty-seven, found himself alone on a long and important military mission, and for the first time, without his close friend Levi.

I’ve always relied on Levi to give me good advice and encouragement, and he had a way of tempering my more reckless impulses. This trip is different; I’ll be alone and with some serious responsibilities. He thought of these things as he jostled other soldiers crowding the railing on a sunny, blustery day off the coast of France.

“Well, young man, what do you think of our ship? It’s one of your navy’s finest, I imagine.” The speaker was a stout man with a quick smile, speaking in heavily accented German and wearing a perfectly tailored civilian suit. Markus turned to respond to the hearty questioner.

“Ja, it is a fine ship, and fast, but these cruisers are being superseded by a new class of heavier more advanced design and with better armor.” Markus hesitated. “And who, sir, do I have the pleasure of addressing?”

“Warner Lange, Professor Warner Lange”--he cleared his throat--“from California.”

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Morgan James Fiction
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1630478636
• ISBN 13: 9781630478636
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 362
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