About Helena P Schrader
Dr. Helena P. Schrader is an award-winning and best-selling author who holds a PhD in history from the University of Hamburg, and served as an American diplomat in Europe and Africa. Her chief areas of expertise are Aviation, Ancient Sparta and the Crusader States.
Schrader’s novels set in the Middle Ages are based on the historical record but also incorporate the insights gained from modern archaeological surveys. Her non-fiction studies of the crusader states, The Holy Land in the Era of the Crusades: Kingdoms at the Crossroads of Civilizations and The Powerful Women of Outremer: Forgotten Heroines of the Crusader States, pull together recent academic findings from a variety of disciplines. The focus of six of her novels on the crusader states rather than the crusades makes these books unique and valuable contributions to the literature on the era. The Tale of the English Templar is an early work set in France rather than the Holy Land.