In the summer of 1914, Evan Sinclair yearns to escape the constraints of living with his father and leaves home to join the Great War for Civilization. Little does he know that, despite the war raging in Europe, the true source of conflict will emerge in Ottoman Palestine, since it’s from Jerusalem where Kaiser Wilhelm II dreams of ruling as Holy Roman Emperor with dominion over Arabian oil reserves and with an eye to promote German- Nordic racial supremacy throughout the world.
Filled with real people from the pages of history such as Chaim Weizmann, Asher Ginsberg (Achad Ha’am), Faisal bin Hussein, Gertrude Bell, TE Lawrence, as well as fictional characters including a shadowy group of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount guardians, Wages of Empire follows Evan as he embarks on a journey that will bring him into the killing fields of the Western Front where he will help turn the tide of a war that is just beginning, and become part of a story still being told in the headlines of daily newspapers around the world.
Fiction
Wages of Empire
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September 1, 2023
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