"Kalvarianhof: The Storm That Shook the World" is book two in a four-book series about two friendly German families, Catholic and Jewish. "Kalvarianhof: The Perilous Journey" covered the period of the Boxer Rebellion in China, from 1900 to 1909. This volume---"Kalvarianhof: The Storm That Shook the World"--- picks up in 1909 and extends to 1919, from pre-WWI Bavaria and German Southwest Africa, to WWI German Colonies in Africa. High adventure and romance abound, as does the blossoming friendship and loyalty between the two protagonists, soldiers Markus and Levi, and their families. "The Storm That Shook the World" follows the historical record, telling important pre-war and WWI history in little-known but significant places. The full series is a multi-generational saga from 1900 to 1955; it will appeal to readers of "Pillars of the Earth."

"Kalvarianhof: The Storm That Shook the World" is the second of a four-book series, following up on "Kalvarianhof: The Long Way Home." This second story revolves around the friendship, loyalty, adventures, and love--sometimes forbidden--that two German families experience together in early 20th-century Germany and Africa.

Family friends for generations, Catholic Markus and Jewish Levi--young men newly home from adventures in China--find themselves and their ladies living the last wonderfully romantic days of the Belle Epoch, the Beautiful Era, before the beginning of the first World War in 1914. The two men, swept up by the Great War, find themselves far from the trenches of France, but no less safe in the wilds and wars as soldiers in Kaiser Wilhelm’s African colonies.

Meanwhile back at Kalvarianhof, the grand Levi estate deep in the forests of Bavaria, the families left behind struggle with hardships and dangers unforeseen. In Africa too, loved ones face betrayal and terror that threatens their very lives.