At the height of World War I, Manfred von Richthofen-Germany's most feared fighter pilot, known to the world as the Red Baron-soars across the skies in a crimson triplane, carving his name into legend. But beneath the medals and myth is a man unraveling, haunted by the weight of glory and the unbearable toll of war.
Then he meets Clara Weiss, a brilliant, British-born nurse with German blood and a forged identity. Assigned to the field hospital near the front, Clara tends to the wounded with steady hands and guarded eyes. When fate delivers Manfred into her care, what begins as a brush with death becomes the first breath of something dangerously alive.
Drawn together by secrecy and sustained by stolen moments, their love becomes a lifeline-passionate, impossible, and perilously intertwined with a war that demands sacrifice from them both. As Manfred becomes the crown jewel of Germany's propaganda machine, and Clara is shuffled like a pawn through military assignments, they cling to each other across miles of blood and smoke.
But history does not bend for love. And when the bullet finally finds the Baron, Clara is left with the one thing the world can never take from her:
She knew him before he became a myth.
Crimson Skies is a haunting, romantic, and historically grounded portrait of one of the most iconic figures of the Great War-told not through his victories, but through the eyes of the woman who saw the man inside the legend.
At the height of World War I, Manfred von Richthofen-Germany's most feared fighter pilot, known to the world as the Red Baron-soars across the skies in a crimson triplane, carving his name into legend. But beneath the medals and myth is a man unraveling, haunted by the weight of glory and the unbearable toll of war.
Then he meets Clara Weiss, a brilliant, British-born nurse with German blood and a forged identity. Assigned to the field hospital near the front, Clara tends to the wounded with steady hands and guarded eyes. When fate delivers Manfred into her care, what begins as a brush with death becomes the first breath of something dangerously alive.
Drawn together by secrecy and sustained by stolen moments, their love becomes a lifeline-passionate, impossible, and perilously intertwined with a war that demands sacrifice from them both. As Manfred becomes the crown jewel of Germany's propaganda machine, and Clara is shuffled like a pawn through military assignments, they cling to each other across miles of blood and smoke.
But history does not bend for love. And when the bullet finally finds the Baron, Clara is left with the one thing the world can never take from her:
She knew him before he became a myth.
Crimson Skies is a haunting, romantic, and historically grounded portrait of one of the most iconic figures of the Great War-told not through his victories, but through the eyes of the woman who saw the man inside the legend.
Crimson Skies: The Love and Legend of the Red Baron
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Crimson Skies: The Love and Legend of the Red Baron
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798349463631 |
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| Publisher: | Jason Kondrath |
| Publication date: | 07/02/2025 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 80 |
| File size: | 285 KB |