Bøker av David Trawinski

This book is the second installment in the historical fiction saga, "The Life of Marek Zaczek." It follows the life of this young Polish peasant boy from his birth in 1772 through the era of the Partitions of Poland, and on through the Napoleonic Wars which he becomes immersed in. Volume 2 "Embers of Love and War" picks up a few years after Volume 1 "Under the Wings of Eagles." As volume 2 opens, Marek is 32 years old and serving in Napoleon's Army under General Dabrowski's Polish Legions. This volume closes as Napoleon enters Warsaw in December of 1806 and the beginning of January 1807. This work historically focuses on the Rise of Napoleon, his ascension to being coronated as Emperor of the French, and his navy's dramatic encounters with Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson. The romantic relationships are detailed of Admiral Nelson with Lady Emma Hamilton, and Napoleon with, first, Josephine, and later with the Polish Countess Marie Walewska. The continuation of the fictional romance of Marek and Maya is threaded throughout the novel.

War of the Nocturne's Widow is the third installment of the Chopin Trilogy, after "The Willow's Bend" and "Chasing the Winter's Wind."The novel opens with a feud developing between the CIA and MI6 over a missing agent. Jack Trellis, the Deputy Director of Operations for the CIA is searching for his agent Diane "The Huntress" Sterling. He fears that Diane has obtained information which could bring his most highly guarded secret of the Cold War to light - the operation "Osiris" run by the East German double agent "Erasmus." Trellis suspects that Britain's Secret Service (MI6) is harboring Diane, and threatens an all-out war between the two intelligence services.This book explores the post WWII creation of one of history's most repressive regimes - The Stasi State Security Ministry of East Germany. This intriguing tale entwines with the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, the exfiltration of "Osprey" (an even more secretive and highly placed spy within the Warsaw Pact leadership) and the events leading up to the collapse of the Soviet Union itself.

CHASING THE WINTER"S WIND is the sequel to THE WILLOW'S BEND and the second book of THE CHOPIN TRILOGY. Stanley Wisniewski is on the run in Europe from none other than his old employer - the Central Intelligence Agency. Stanley carries many secrets tha the Deputy Director of Operations, Jack Trellis, desperately wants to never come to the light of day. In order to catch Stanley, Trellis calls on the woman that Stanley himself had trained, Diane Sterling. She is known as "The Huntress" in Agency circles for never having failed to catch anyone she lays her sights upon. The excitement mounts as Stanley evades his former protege as he heads west from Warsaw to Vienna, Milan, and ultimately Paris. But neither Diane nor Stanley are aware that Jack Trellis has inserted a special ops agent within Diane's team to take Stanley out as soon as Diane locates her old mentor.

Marek Zaczek Volume 1: Under the Wings of EaglesMarek Zaczek is born amidst the snows of Galicia in 1772.Born a simple peasant boy, Marek grows to be a man over the next twenty-five years. He dreams of the past power of Poland's feared Winged Hussars, and of even one day riding for his country as an Uhlan Cavalier. Above all else, he wants nothing more than the hand in marriage of his beloved Maya Manuska. The Story of Marek's life becomes forever intertwined with the heinous crimes of the Partitions of Poland, the soaring spirit of independence won in America, and the haunting terror of the French Revolution.