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The Tatra Eagle
Author(s): J. Victor Tomaszek (Author)
- Publisher: Roundfire Books
- Publication Date: 16 Oct. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 385 pages
- ISBN-10: 1780995229
- ISBN-13: 9781780995229
Book Description
As war in 1680s Europe rages below, BOLESLAW RADOK shepherds and hunts in Poland’s High Tatra Mountains. His father like all able bodied men is off at war and has neither trained his son in close combat nor left him a sword. Boleslaw is attacked by a wolf and limps home for bandaging, then barely survives a farm raid that kills his grandfather. Four Polish knights kill the brigands then deliver Bole’s fallen father’s sword, a dying comrade’s last wish. Boleslaw struggles with two options: stay on the farm he cannot defend well or follow his father’s path to a life at war. Why are the knights reluctant to train him? The Tatra Eagle is a completed 102,000-word historical novel climaxing in the 1683 Battle of Vienna, seat of the Holy Roman Empire. It is in the same genre as Michael Crichton’s Pirate Latitudes and Ken Follet’s Fall of Giants. Doctor Zhivago’s epic romantic sweep also comes to mind.
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About the Author
J. Victor Tomaszek is a former amateur operatic tenor, Viet Nam era airborne firefighter and now raises alpacas in the Chicago suburbs. Mr. Tomaszek has lived in Europe and Asia for extended periods, his exposure to numerous cultures adds a multi-faceted view to his novels. Mr. Tomaszek is active in the American-Polish community both in the Chicago and New York areas where an estimated 2,000,000 Americans of Polish heritage live. Mr. Tomaszek has performed in historical reenactments, and can ride and shoot from the saddle with the best of them. The Tatra Eagle is Mr. Tomaszek’s fourth completed novel and the first to be published.
