Thursday, September 4, 2014

A Historical retrospective Book spotlight: The Bridge of Deaths by MCV Egan. It is the 75th Anniversary of this historical event. Wonderful prices can be won, make sure you don't miss this opportunity.





About The Bridge of Deaths
"M.C.V. Egan twists truth and fiction until you question your perceptions...it is a story of real love, triumph and search for self." - Beckah Boyd @ The Truthful Tarot
5 out of 5 stars:  "An unusual yet much recommended read." - Midwest Book Review 
On August 15th, 1939, an English passenger plane from British Airways Ltd. crashed in Danish waters between the towns of Nykøbing Falster and Vordingborg. There were five casualties reported and one survivor. Just two weeks before, Hitler invaded Poland.
With the world at the brink of war, the manner in which this incident was investigated left much open to doubt. The jurisdiction battle between the two towns and the newly formed Danish secret police created an atmosphere of intrigue and distrust.
The Bridge of Deaths is a love story and a mystery. Fictional characters travel through the world of past life regressions and information acquired from psychics as well as archives and historical sources to solve "one of those mysteries that never get solved." Based on true events and real people, The Bridge of Deaths is the culmination of 18 years of sifting through conventional and unconventional sources in Denmark, England, Mexico and the United States. The story finds a way to help the reader feel that s/he is also sifting through data and forming their own conclusions.
Cross The Bridge of Deaths into 1939, and dive into cold Danish waters to uncover the secrets of the G-AESY.
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About the author
M.C.V. Egan is the pen name chosen by Maria Catalina Vergara Egan. Catalina was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1959, the sixth of eight children, in a traditional Catholic family.
From a very young age, she became obsessed with the story of her maternal grandfather, Cesar Agustin Castillo--mostly the story of how he died.
She spent her childhood in Mexico. When her father became an employee of The World Bank in Washington D.C. in the early 1970s, she moved with her entire family to the United States. Catalina was already fluent in English, as she had spent one school year in the town of Pineville, Louisiana with her grandparents. There she won the English award, despite being the only one who had English as a second language in her class.
In the D.C. suburbs she attended various private Catholic schools and graduated from Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland in 1977. She attended Montgomery Community College, where she changed majors every semester. She also studied in Lyons, France, at the Catholic University for two years. In 1981, due to an impulsive young marriage to a Viking (the Swedish kind, not the football player kind), Catalina moved to Sweden where she resided for five years and taught at a language school for Swedish, Danish, and Finnish businesspeople. She then returned to the USA, where she has lived ever since. She is fluent in Spanish, English, French and Swedish.
Maria Catalina Vergara Egan is married and has one son who, together with their five-pound Chihuahua, makes her feel like a full-time mother. Although she would not call herself an astrologer she has taken many classes and taught a few beginner classes in the subject.
The celebrated her 52nd birthday on July 2nd, 2011, and gave herself self-publishing The Bridge of Deaths as a gift.

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The Bridge of Deaths is, above all, a book based on history. Because the events of the book took place just a mere two weeks before the start of World War II, this year marks the 75th anniversary of both the crash of the G-AESY (the central event in The Bridge of Deaths) and the start of WWII. M.C.V. Egan has chosen to commemorate both of these events with a 75th anniversary remembrance—a part of which are a series of historical retrospectives recounting the events that led to the start of WWII, as well as a discussion of how these events were often linked to the real-life characters of the book. 

HISTORICAL RETROSPECTIVE: March 15-16, 1939: The Nazis take Czechoslovakia
“…on March 15, 1939, during a meeting with Czech President Emil Hacha—a man considered weak, and possibly even senile—Hitler threatened a bombing raid against Prague, the Czech capital, unless he obtained from Hacha free passage for German troops into Czech borders. He got it.” (Source)
Despite having been given the Sudetenland in the Munich Agreement, this did not stop Adolf Hitler and the Nazis from invading and taking Czechoslovakia. On March 16, 1939, the Wermatch moved into the remaining unannexed parts of the country and, from Prague Castle, Hitler declared Bohemia and Moravia to be German protectorates.
Germany’s imperial aims and Hitler’s lust for power were only beginning.
A link to The Bridge of Deaths:  As a whole, whenever there was any turmoil discussed in Parliament because of the situation in Czechoslovakia, G-AESY victim Anthony Crossley always spoke up and went back to what he felt was the start of the problem: The Munich Pact. In February of 1939, it is particularly interesting to see how he relates to Parliament Member R.A. Butler who later that year, in May, sent Crossley a letter acknowledging that Crossley is indeed right. However, despite this acknowledgement, during these talks they are clearly at opposite ends of opinion regarding the conflict. 

 

3 comments:

  1. Thank you so much for featuring Catalina, Lynelle! You rock!

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  2. Hi lynelle, love the post and so honored to be here!

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  3. Hi Catalina and Anne. It is always a privilege to have you visit my blog.

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