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Thetes The lowest class of Athenian citizens. Although freemen, thetes generally owned no land and could not afford hoplite panoply, let alone horses. They manned Athens’ fleet of triremes, receiving pay for this service, and also made up the majority of the men voting in the Athenian Assembly or serving as jurors in trials. At the start of the Peloponnesian War there were an estimated sixty thousand thetes in Athens.
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HELENA P. SCHRADER
HISTORIAN, NOVELIST, DIPLOMAT
www.helenapschrader.com
HELENA PAGE SCHRADER IS A CAREER diplomat who earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Hamburg with a ground-breaking dissertation about the mastermind behind the Valkyrie plot against Hitler, General Friedrich Olbricht. She has published nonfiction works on the German Resistance, women in aviation in WWII, and the Berlin Airlift. Her novels on the German Resistance, the Battle of Britain, and ancient Greece have won praise and awards.
List of Principal Publications:
Nonfiction
• General Friedrich Olbricht: Ein Mann des 20 . Juli, Helena Page (Schrader), Bouvier Verlag, 1993/1994
• Sisters in Arms: British and American Women Pilots During World War II, Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2006
• The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift, The History Press, 2008/2010
• Codename Valkyrie: General Friedrich Olbricht and the Plot Against Hitler, Haynes Publishing, 2009
Fiction
• The Olympic Charioteer, iUniverse, 2005
• Are They Singing in Sparta?, iUniverse, 2006
• The Lady in the Spitfire, iUniverse, 2006
• Spartan Slave, Spartan Queen, iUniverse, 2007
• Leonidas of Sparta: A Boy of the Agoge, Wheatmark, 2010
• Leonidas of Sparta: A Peerless Peer, Wheatmark, 2011
• Where Eagles Never Flew: A Battle of Britain Novel, Wheatmark, 2011
• Hitler’s Demons: A Novel of the German Resistance, Wheatmark, 2012
ALSO BY
HELENA P. SCHRADER
Nonfiction Works
Codename Valkyrie: General Friedrich Olbricht and the Plot Against Hitler
Haynes Publishing, 2009, 288 pages
The objective: to kill Hitler and end his reign of terror. The means: a coup d’état disguised as a legitimate General Staff plan approved by Hitler himself. The mastermind behind it all: General Friedrich Olbricht. Olbricht’s plan would have changed the course of history if only Colonel Claus Count von Stauffenberg had not failed.
The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift
The History Press, 2008, 2010, 304 pages
The Berlin Airlift, one of the largest and most ambitious humanitarian efforts in histo
ry, began practically without aircraft and aircrew and without sufficient airfields. Yet once it began, the Berlin Airlift became an inspirational feat of organization and international collaboration. Soon ordinary people, from cooks to controllers and from loaders to pilots, had made it more successful than even its originators ever imagined possible.
Sisters in Arms: British and American Women Pilots during WWII
Pen and Sword Books Ltd., 2006, 298 pages
During WWII, a few carefully selected women in the United States and Great Britain were given the unprecedented opportunity to fly military aircraft. Yet while the British women were awarded equal pay to that of their male colleagues and could even attain command authority over men, their American sisters were denied both. This book explores why.
Fiction: World War II
Hitler’s Demons: A Novel of the German Resistance
Wheatmark, 2012, 557 pages (Originally published as An Obsolete Honor, iUniverse, 2008)
Hitler’s demons were those Germans who opposed his diabolical regime on moral grounds. They sought to defend human dignity and restore the rule of law. This novel is a tribute to the brave men and women of Germany’s resistance and tells the true story of the Valkyrie plot to assassinate Hitler.
Where Eagles Never Flew: A Battle of Britain Novel
Wheatmark, 2011, 623 pages (Originally published as Chasing the Wind, iUniverse, 2007)
This is the novel RAF fighter ace Bob Doe called “the best book” he had ever read about the Battle of Britain. According to Doe, Schrader got it “smack on the way it was for us fighter pilots.” Retired US Air Force fighter pilot Kencil Heaton called the book “hard to put down ... and perfect for a follow-on Hollywood cinema production.”
The Lady in the Spitfire
iUniverse, 2006, 315 pages
Returning from a mission over Berlin with a badly damaged B-17, Lt. Jay Baronowsky, USAAF, almost collides, while landing in bad weather, with a British Wellington. When he discovers the pilot of the British bomber is a woman, the near-crash becomes a clash of cultures―and a love affair.
Novels of Ancient Greece
The Olympic Charioteer
iUniverse, 2005, 408 pages
Two cities at war …
Two men with Olympic ambitions …
And one slave - the finest charioteer in Greece …
Set in archaic Greece and based on incidents recorded in Herodotus, this is the tale of a young man’s journey from tragedy to triumph, and the story of the founding of the first non-aggression pact in recorded history: the Peloponnesian League.
Are They Singing in Sparta?
iUniverse, 2006, 414 pages
Sparta is losing the war in Messenia when the Delphic oracle orders a lame Athenian schoolmaster to become Sparta’s reluctant supreme commander. But the schoolmaster-poet soon discovers there is more to Sparta than Athenian propaganda led him to believe. Before long the lame Athenian and a young Spartan commander are moving Sparta in a new direction―under the influence of a young widow they both admire.
Spartan Slave, Spartan Queen: A Tale of Four Women in Sparta
iUniverse, 2007, 309 pages
Two women, one beautiful and one ugly, are enslaved in the same Spartan raid against the rebellious Messenians. This novel follows their different fates, and in so doing explores the nature and effects of beauty on human interactions.
The Leonidas Trilogy
Leonidas of Sparta: A Boy of the Agoge
Wheatmark, 2010, 250 pages
Leonidas of Sparta―destined to lead the 300 at Thermopylae―earned his citizenship, kingship, and fame by force of personality, but Schrader is the first writer to produce a biographical novel of the Spartan hero. Schrader combines historical research with a novelist’s skill to tell Leonidas’ compelling personal story and create a refreshingly unorthodox portrayal of Spartan society. This is the first book in her Leonidas trilogy.
Leonidas of Sparta: A Peerless Peer
Wheatmark, 2011, 523 pages
King Leonidas of Sparta lived for half a century before his defiant death at Thermopylae. This, the second book of the Leonidas trilogy, traces Leonidas’ evolution from ranker to commander as he develops his leadership skills, grows into his civic responsibilities, and finds the woman he needs in Gorgo, the precocious daughter of his half-brother Cleomenes.
Table of Contents
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
CONTENTS
CAST OF CHARACTERS
MAP OF LEONIDAS’ WORLD
INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PROLOGUE
PART I: THE AGIAD THRONE
1. THE DESCENDANTS OF HERAKLES
2. AN EXCESS OF HEIRS
3. WAGES OF CORRUPTION
4. A SPARTAN EDUCATION
5. THE LIMITS OF DIPLOMACY
6. FOXES LARGE AND SMALL
7. INVASION
8. DEATH OF A KING
9. MARATHON
10. THE ELDER TWIN
PART II: KING LEONIDAS
11. I, LEONIDAS
12. LACEDAEMON RISING
13. WARRIORS FOR THE WORKING DAY
14. WRATH OF THE GODS
15. MISSION TO THE GREAT KING
16. DEFENDERS OF SPARTA
17. A SPARTAN ABROAD
PART III: THERMOPYLAE
18. CONFEDERACY FOR FREEDOM
19. FAREWELL, LACEDAEMON
20. THE PASS
21. THE EMPIRE STRIKES
22. CREATURES OF NIGHT
23. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ!
EPILOGUE
HISTORICAL NOTE
GLOSSARY OF GREEK TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY