When Eagles Die

by Robert Ambros

Coach Joe Bartkowski stuns the basketball world when he leads a small college team to the national championships. Now sought after by major universities, Joe finds his career threatened by unexplained anxiety and panic attacks. Is it a midlife crisis as his therapist claims, or does the answer lie in his familys history? Spanning three generations, from the Eastern Front in World War One through the Siberian gulags to the battlefields of World War Two, When Eagles Die embraces Joes painful search for the truth, his unexpected discoveries about himself, and the very nature of the human mind.

248 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Robert Ambros was born in Passaic, New Jersey in 1959. After receiving his medical degree at the Copernicus School of Medicine (Jagiellonian University), he further trained in surgical pathology at the New Jersey Medical School and in gynecologic pathology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. As a cancer researcher, he is the author of over fifty peer-reviewed scientific papers. His first novel, The Brief Sun, was based on his parents' WWII experiences in Siberian labor camps and won the 10th annual Writer's Digest International Book Award for best genre fiction. His second historical novel, When Eagles Die, explored the effects of posttraumatic stress disorder on future generations. This was followed by a murder mystery in a WWII setting, Griffith Stadium. He is currently working on a series of humorous essays. He lives in Central Florida.