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New chapters will be released each week. There are 21 chapters in Book 1.
These chapters are part of a three-book trilogy which tells the story of three friends, Jean-Luc, Adrien, and Anna Lise, during the years of Napoleon's European wars from 1796 to 1806.
Book one covers the time from Anna Lise's birth through the aftermath of Austerlitz, often considered Napoleon's greatest victory.
Book 2 covers Napoleon's campaigns against Prussia and Spain. Jean-Luc and Adrien learn to live with all the horrible consequences of war.
Book 3 covers Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia and the rescue of Anna Lise by Jean-Luc in Moscow and their harrowing trip home to Colmar, France.
SYNOPSES
1795 two young boys return home from fishing to find their parish priest has been guillotined in the town square. Seventeen years later, Jean-Luc and Adrien have faced every horror and hardship imaginable as part of the emperor's Grande Armée, but their greatest challenge is still ahead . . . to find Jean-Luc's love, Anna Lise.
"Jean-Luc & Anna Lise" is set in the turbulent years of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars and follows the lives of three childhood friends: Jean-Luc, Adrien, and Adrien's sister, Anna Lise. Jean-Luc and Adrien join Napoleon's army expecting grand adventure and glory. They do find courage and comradery, but they must also endure disease, intense suffering, and death. Complicating their lives is Jean-Luc's growing love for Anna Lise, who has fled with her parents from France to Russia . . . the country they must now invade. Will Jean-Luc and Adrien find Anna Lise, survive the brutal Russian winter, and return home to France? Can Jean-Luc reconcile himself with the horrors he has witnessed?
An epic unfolding of heartfelt friendships, dire privations, and undying love.