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 nightmare: a choice between his country and the woman he loves. Meanwhile, on the ground, the controversial policy of "collective amnesty" has opened the door for former Nazis to regain control, corrupting the very institutions meant to deliver justice. When a young woman, a victim of brutal violence, is charged with murder, her trial becomes a cause célèbre. Defended by a courageous female lawyer, the widow of a German resistance hero, this high-stakes legal drama unfolds against a backdrop of escalating Cold War tensions, and the defendant comes to represent the tens of thousands of rape victims across the [...]-winning novelist Helena P. Schrader takes you beyond the headlines and into the shadows of the Berlin Airlift. Cold Victory explores the social and psychological aspects of the first battle of the Cold War, while reminding us that victory often comes at an extraordinary price. Ultimately, there can be no peace without justice - and no compromise with tyranny.
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 nightmare: a choice between his country and the woman he loves. Meanwhile, on the ground, the controversial policy of "collective amnesty" has opened the door for former Nazis to regain control, corrupting the very institutions meant to deliver justice. When a young woman, a victim of brutal violence, is charged with murder, her trial becomes a cause célèbre. Defended by a courageous female lawyer, the widow of a German resistance hero, this high-stakes legal drama unfolds against a backdrop of escalating Cold War tensions, and the defendant comes to represent the tens of thousands of rape victims across the [...]-winning novelist Helena P. Schrader takes you beyond the headlines and into the shadows of the Berlin Airlift. Cold Victory explores the social and psychological aspects of the first battle of the Cold War, while reminding us that victory often comes at an extraordinary price. Ultimately, there can be no peace without justice - and no compromise with tyranny.
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Helena P. Schrader is a former U.S. diplomat, who earned her PhD in Modern History from the University of Hamburg. She spent roughly one-third of her life in Berlin and first explored the pivotal events of the Berlin Crisis 1948-1949 in her comprehensive non-fiction study The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift. In addition to five other non-fiction works, Schrader is the author of twenty novels, eleven of which have earned numerous literary awards and many lesser accolades from the book industry. The first book in the Bridge to Tomorrow Series, Cold Peace, won a total of eight awards, including an Independent Press Award, being named "Runner-Up for Book of the Year 2023" and Gold for Historical Fiction from Feathered Quill. Both "Cold Peace" and Schrader's book on the Battle of Britain, "Where Eagles Never Flew," were Amazon #1 Best-Sellers in aviation and military historical fiction. For details on all her books and awards visit her website at: [...]
