The angel and the sword
By: Sally Wragg
Publisher: Robert Hale
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780719814303
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: The Nazi Party have a firm hold of 1930s Germany, and when willful Henrietta Arabella, the youthful Duchess of Loxley, is sent on a tour of Europe by her formidable grandmother Katherine, it is to remove her from the temptation of an unsuitable love affair. For once escaping her companion, alone and lost in an insalubrious area of Venice, Hettie finds herself in great danger, setting off an incredible chain of events involving a German Count, the theft of secret war office papers, and a fantastical tale of the Saxon King and Queen, Edmund and Elgiva, and the magnificent broadsword, Aelric, the Peace-maker.