Bøker av H Allenger

The Damned of Magdeburg' is more a study of how characters behave when living under an impending apocalypse. The city of Magdeburg has been pegged a target by the Catholic forces of the Holy Roman Empire for its refusal to attend the Regensburg Summit called for by the Emperor Ferdinand and its failure to comply with the Edict of Restitution demanded by him. It is besieged by, first Pappenheim and then Tilly, commanders of the Catholic League, in retaliation for their omission, and the book centers around the lives of the main personages residing within Magdeburg and how they respond and cope with the crisis. The book addresses the issue of each person's moral conduct; they commit one or more of the seven deadly sins as preached by the Church so that they suffer from guilt complexes that makes them believe their impending doom may be merited by them. The lives of the main characters center around these complexities and are interwoven into the fabric of their behavior and conduct towards each other and themselves.¿

After suffering a major defeat at the hands of the Greeks as a result of being betrayed by her male allied generals, in which she loses her queen and much of her army, as well as her one true love, the Trojan princess Polyxena, the Amazon commander, Antiope, vows to avenge the injury caused her.Follow her trail of vengeance as she embarks on a journey to establish her authority as the new queen of the Amazons and mete out her revenge against the allied lords who abandoned her. In her quest, she must overcome the resistance of her rival Amazons for the throne as well as her own emotional conflicts in order to achieve and maintain dominance in ruling her realm. Confronted by many adversities, Antiope must navigate the stormy events threatening her reign in order to retain her control over the forces opposing her.The world of the Amazons of Greek Mythology, with its characters, intrigues, and rivalries, come to life as rarely written before in this epic novel.