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Constantine’s Crossing

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

World War II, the sleepy little town of Niš in southern Serbia, occupied by the Nazis. Field Commander Otto von Fehn has to cope with one headache after another: too many troops and not enough support or supplies, the backward locals who are ignoring their German occupiers and killing each other in a brutal civil war involving at least three different factions, and now the Ahnenerbe has sent one of its experts to meddle in the excavations of a nearby ancient Roman settlement. Von Fehn does his job with stereotypical German efficiency. Few people know that Naissus (modern day Niš) is the birthplace of Constantine the Great, or that he constructed a mighty armory there. Major Heinrich Kahn of the SS certainly did not. He is sent to the backwaters of the Balkan’s on a mission by the Fuehrer himself. He must find Constantine’s Crossing beneath the town and capture the final relic — the battle sword of Constantine — that will give Hitler the ultimate power he needs to complete his plan to master the world.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Dejan
Stojilokovic

ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Randall
A. Major

NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

Constantine’s Crossing is about a little town in Southern Servia occupied by Nazis and a brutal civil war. In the birthplace of Constantine the Great, the Nazi Major tries to find Constantine’s Crossing beneath the town and capture the final relic – the battle sword of Constantine, that will give Hitler the ultimate power he needs to complete his plan to master the world. For his novel Dejan Stojiljkovic received the Milos Crnyhnski Award – World War 2, the sleepy little town of Niš in Southern Serbia, occupied by the Nazis. Few people know that Niš is the birthplace of Constantine the Great, or that he constructed a might armoury there. Major Heinrich Kahn of the SS certainly did not. He is sent to the Balkan’s on a mission by the Fuehrer himself, to find Constantine’s Crossing beneath the town and capture the final relic, the battle sword of Constantine. This will give Hitler the ultimate power he needs to complete his plan to master the world.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Serbia
Original Language
Serbian
Publisher
Geopoetika Publishing
Translator
Randall A. Major

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