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    The Boy Who Wanted Wings: Love in the Time of War
    The Boy Who Wanted Wings: Love in the Time of War
    The Boy Who Wanted Wings: Love in the Time of War
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    The Boy Who Wanted Wings: Love in the Time of War

    Written by James Conroyd Martin

    Narrated by James Gillies

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    AN IPPI GOLD MEDAL WINNER

    Expert archer Aleksy has his heart set on joining the elite hussars at the Battle of Vienna.

    Countess Krystyna turns his heart in a different direction.

    As an outsider, Aleksy knows that both dreams are forbidden. And yet, one day he finds that he must choose between the two.

    -~Romeo and Juliet with a Twist

    ~~"A pitch-perfect follow-up to his Poland Trilogy"~Historical Novels Review

     It is September 11, 1683, and the Ottoman Turks stand at Vienna poised to bring down the weakening citadel and impose jihad. Their sights are set on all of Europe.

    Aleksy, a Tatar raised by a Polish peasant family, holds in his heart the wish to become a Polish winged hussar, a Christian lancer who carries into battle a device attached to his back that holds dozens of eagle feathers. As a Tatar and as a peasant, this is an unlikely quest. When he meets Krystyna, the daughter of the noble who owns the land that his parents work, he falls hopelessly in love. But even though she returns his love, race and class differences make this quest as impossible as that of becoming a hussar. Under the most harrowing and unlikely circumstances, one day Aleksy must choose between his dreams. 

    An IPPY GOLD MEDAL 2017 winner from the Independent Publisher Book Awards

     Historical Novels Review

    "This classic different-worlds love affair provides the human grounding for a larger story replete with well-researched period details about the struggle of 17th-century Europe against the forces of Islam, and Martin is a skilled enough storyteller to keep the whole narrative moving forward briskly to a very satisfying conclusion. The author has written a pitch-perfect follow-up to his Poland Trilogy." 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Conroyd Martin
    Release dateFeb 14, 2018
    ISBN9781509484065
    The Boy Who Wanted Wings: Love in the Time of War
    Author

    James Conroyd Martin

    James Conroyd Martin is an award-winning author of novels set in Poland. Although of Irish and Norwegian extraction, he has been embraced by the Polish community. The American Institute for Polish Culture presented him with their prestigious Gold Medal. The author is quick to point out that the stories of love, war, and survival appeal to everyone. Martin is a longtime teacher who lives in and teaches in the Chicago area.

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