Power of the Sword  Power of the Sword  Part of the 'Courtney'
series  Power of the Sword is a rich and thrilling adventure, a
magnificent feat of storytelling that sweeps the reader from the
deserts, mountains and cities of Africa to the heartland of Nazi
Germany, and from the turmoil of the Depression years into the
white heat of war.  A novel of life-long love and hate, of
courage and revenge, Power of the Sword is the story of two
half-brothers – the sons of Centaine de Thiry Courtney from The
Burning Shore – caught up in the tumult of their nation's
history through almost two decades.  Blood enemies from their
first boyhood encounter, Manfred De La Rey and Shasa Courtney
find themselves adversaries in a war of age-old savagery to
seize the sword of power in their land.  Moving from the teeming
goldfields of the Highveld to the secret citadels of Afrikaner
power, from the ringing Olympic stadia of Berlin in 1936 to the
raging skies over the Abyssinian hills, Power of the Sword is
epic fiction rooted in do