Helena P. Schrader is a former U.S. diplomat, who earned her PhD in Modern History from the University of Hamburg. She spent roughly one-third of her life in Berlin and first explored the pivotal events of the Berlin Crisis 1948-1949 in her comprehensive non-fiction study The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift. In addition to five other non-fiction works, Schrader is the author of twenty novels, eleven of which have earned numerous literary awards and many lesser accolades from the book industry. The first book in the Bridge to Tomorrow Series, Cold Peace, won a total of eight awards, including an Independent Press Award, being named "Runner-Up for Book of the Year 2023" and Gold for Historical Fiction from Feathered Quill. Both "Cold Peace" and Schrader's book on the Battle of Britain, "Where Eagles Never Flew," were Amazon #1 Best-Sellers in aviation and military historical fiction. For details on all her books and awards visit her website at: https://helenapschrader.net