Sons of the Eagle - Paperback
Sons of the Eagle - Paperback
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by K. A. Higgs (Author)
In 1906 sixteen year old Julius Mayer travels to Vienna to join the Austro-Hungarian Army as an army cadet. There he meets three other young men who will become his closest friends as they train to become Sons of the Eagle, soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian Army. As the Great War looms on the horizon Julius, his friends and their families prepare for a war which will change a continent, kill millions of men and eventually see the defeat of their army. This story portrays the personal lives of these families, their conflicts, their loves and the ultimate scars that will never be erased at the end of the war. Sons of the Eagle is loosely based on the life of the author's grandfather, Julius
Author Biography
K.A. Higgs is British, and has lived in Michigan, U.S.A for the past twelve years. Always interested in history, she was exploring her family history, especially that of her father, when she studied the life of her grandfather, Julius. Wanting to tell the story of his early life in the Austro Hungarian Army, she wrote Sons of the Eagle. Now she is writing the follow up novel to Sons of the Eagle, which follows her grandparents and father's story through the Second World War, which ripped their family apart as The Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia.
