Can be skipped if you want to. Three short poems from the book A Fighting Heritage. They summarise the critical events of the stories themselves. The book demonstrates what happens when irresistible forces meet unmovable objects in human encounters on the battlefield - wars are fought by people, not equipment.
PLEASE READ THIS FIRST. Time Line that helps you appreciate the Clan Amir Stories. This lists of all the stories in chronological and book order, the order they should be read in. It Also has all of the background material on Berant and its people.
People with a warrior tradition face many military challenges, and how they rise to the occasion. Events demonstrate both the sheer horror of war, and the great heights people can reach when striving to protect their own.
A boy caught in the rebellion leaves the country then returns to join the Royal Guards. As a colonel he must stop an invading army while outnumbered 40 to 1.
A young girl who joins the Royal Guards. Follow her early childhood, enlistment, her initial deployment.
Sometimes, even when times are hard, an opportunity arises. Sometimes such an opportunity can lead to adventure and give up mysteries that beg to be solved. Sometimes the solving of those mysteries can bring riches, adventure and sometimes even more mystery. Sometimes we find romance in such adventures. Sometime we find answers to questions that we never asked. Meet Joe and let the adventure begin.
A young boy spends a magical weekend with his sister, a former collegiate track star crippled in a freak accident. During the visit he learns a poignant lesson about the resilience of monarch butterflies and the human heart.
12 Stories about an exceptional person, Gerry Mannheim, a high genius. 12 short stories cover his life from 5 years of age until 10 years of age. Some very short, some not so short. They depict aspects of his character and the events that caused him to grow up fast and become an adult in the full meaning of the word by his tenth birthday.
15 Stories about an exceptional person, Gerry Mannheim, a high genius. These short stories cover his life from 10 years of age until 16 years of age. They depict aspects of his character and the events continuing maturing after he joins the Royal Guards to help him get offer the emotional shocks of the deaths during the year before. Mostly these stories cover the events around his military career but also cover personal high lights like meeting and courting his first wife.
Man believes you must be with a woman long enough to give her three hundred flowers to give each other enough time to get to know each other, but on the three-hundredth flower you must ask her to marry you - or the love will wither on the vine - as it were.
U MAMA launches an all out attack on Berant with thousands of troops set to attack by land, by air, and by sea to hit all important parts of the country at once. Are the Guards and their command structure up to this challenge. Whatever happens, the blood will flow freely across the land, and many will now great sorrow.