Time Travel Thursday

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Good Evening My Fellow Book Dragons,

Autumn is starting to bring relief from the heat, I hope you are starting to feel it. Our tale this evening came to me in the form of an ornate music box of Eastern European Origin. The tune played beautifully and then the tale came forth.

This is “Empire’s Orphan”, a labor of love by Bernard F. Herberick and D. Herberick. This is the true story of Albertina Zimmerman who told stories of great fascination to her grandson, Bernard. Albertina was not the ordinary grandmother, she had lived an extraordinary life.

Born in 1856 in Silesia, situated between Germany, Poland and Bohemia, Albertina was born to a distinguished family and was name for Queen Victoria’s Prince Consort, Albert of Saxe-Coburg.

Tina, as she was known in childhood, lived a fairy tale life, replete with being orphaned as a child. She would grow up to become a very well known Lady with a life full of artists, composers, politicians and would end up in America due to the strife of two world wars.

America was culture shock, but Albertina held with a firm grasp traditions that would spoil her beloved grandson Bernard.

I won’t go into more detail, but I will say this, you history buffs, Queen Victoria fans and those with a love for all cultures will want to read this, nay, you need to read this exquisite little book. The only bad thing I can say about it is that I only wish there were more of Albertina’s stories.

I do hope you will leave a few thoughts here once you have devoured it. Until next time I remain your humble Book Dragon,

Drakon T. Longwitten

I would like to thank D. Herberick for the review copy, my opinions are my own.