An Overview of The Brandt Family Chronicles In The Angel Strikes, (Vol 1) patriarch Paul Brandt becomes an unlikely 12-year old hero. As the years pass we witness triumph, betrayal, jealousy and rage. We marvel at the courageous actions of his descendants, through two centuries of adventures that bring us to the modern age. The Chronicles start with Paul's life and his stunning action as a boy at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt (1806), when Prussia is defeated. This is where the legend of Paul Brandt as "the Angel of Jena" is born. (Vol 1). The choice before him is stark, to win or die. He must...

It's 1947. Berlin is destroyed. The peace is brutal, the weather cruel and food is short. In Volume 7 of the Brandt Family Chronicles, we meet Valentine Brandt, a Luftwaffe pilot, who was introduced to destruction, brutality and shortage in Stalingrad. To-day, the French, like the Russians and Americans, want a potato-patch where the rump of Germany stands. France again casts avaricious eyes at the mineral rich Saar and Ruhr. The British are broke and exhausted. The Germans have no friends and don't expect any. Valentine struggles in a world of scavengers, base threats and sudden death. A...