| About the Book
The time is
1943, a time of war. The place is the hill-perched town of Nemi, in
the Alban Hills south of Rome, overlooking the crater lake where,
2000 years before, the Roman emperor Caligula sailed his gigantic
ships to the Temple of Diana. Just a few years before the war, the
ancient ships, sunk after Caligula’s death, were miraculously
recovered from the lake and placed in a lakeside museum. Paolo, the
museum curator, now struggles to protect these treasures from Allied
bombs and the depredations of the Germans in a world where the
struggle for simple survival makes such efforts seem irrelevant. He
watches with disquiet as the German occupation brings together
Rosanna, his daughter, whose innocence is brutalized by the horrors
of the war, and Klaus, a German officer whose high ideals and love
for Rosanna cause him soul-wrenching conflicts of loyalty. Love? Or
duty?
About
the Author
A. R. Homer has
been fascinated with World War II all his life. A native of
Birmingham, England, he grew up hearing stories of privation and
devastation, of ration cards and shortages, and of the bomb that
almost destroyed his parents’ house. As a history major at Oxford
University, he developed a serious interest in World War II. Later,
he moved to Normandy, France, to study the battles in which ordinary
men determined the course of history. Currently, he and his wife
live in New Jersey, where he is working on this next book, The
Sobs of Autumn.
www.themirrorofdiana.com
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