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The Unknown Warriors is based on a true story set in the beauty and tragedy of Europe in the years just before the Second World War. Abrienda de Soza, inheritor of a fortune stolen from the coffers of Imperial Russia during the last days of the Russian Civil War, fights to keep her country out of the hands of both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia and preserve a culture threatened by both through any means possible. Nika Molnar, an agent working for Hungarian Intelligence's Special Unit, seeks to exact vengeance on the man who murdered her father when she was a child. Impeccably researched, The…mehr

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The Unknown Warriors is based on a true story set in the beauty and tragedy of Europe in the years just before the Second World War. Abrienda de Soza, inheritor of a fortune stolen from the coffers of Imperial Russia during the last days of the Russian Civil War, fights to keep her country out of the hands of both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia and preserve a culture threatened by both through any means possible. Nika Molnar, an agent working for Hungarian Intelligence's Special Unit, seeks to exact vengeance on the man who murdered her father when she was a child. Impeccably researched, The Unknown Warriors captures the feel and nuance of a world soon to be destroyed forever-a uniquely told and deeply compelling story of war, intrigue and betrayal, but also of love and sacrifice played out against the backdrop of a world heading inexorably towards war. The title is taken from a speech by Winston Churchill. "This is a War of Unknown Warriors, but let all strive without failing in faith or duty..."
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The author has lived most his adult life in Central Europe arriving in the former Czechoslovakia in 1990, teaching at the Medical Faculty in Bratislava for eight years before taking a position in Prague as head of English language instruction and chief translator for the Department of Agriculture of the newly formed Czech Republic. He has travelled extensively throughout Central and Eastern Europe and Russia and now lives on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.