People of Struggles

Trained as a ninja from childhood. Forged into an elite commando as a man. Gergely thought he was prepared for anything.

He was wrong.

Because no training could prepare a twentieth-century soldier for Hungary in 1552.

First Lieutenant Gergely knows how to survive when everything goes wrong. He understands weapons, tactics and the brutal mathematics of combat. He has been trained to fight, to kill and, above all, to stay alive.

But when an inexplicable force tears him out of his own time and throws him nearly four and a half centuries into the past, all the rules change.

There are no radios. No helicopters. No reinforcements waiting beyond the horizon. His modern weapons are terrifyingly powerful—but every bullet he fires is one he can never replace.

And an Ottoman army is coming.

Stranded in a violent and unfamiliar age, Gergely is drawn into a country fighting for survival. What begins as an impossible struggle to understand where—and when—he is soon leads him to Eger, a battered frontier fortress standing directly in the path of one of the most powerful military forces on Earth.

Inside its walls, barely two thousand defenders prepare to face an army many times their size.

They are soldiers and peasants, nobles and craftsmen, women and children. They know help may never come. They know the walls may not hold.

And still they refuse to surrender.

Among them are men whose names will become part of Hungarian history: István Dobó, István Mekcsey and Gergely Bornemissza. To them, the mysterious stranger dressed in black possesses knowledge, skills and weapons beyond imagination.

To Gergely, however, they are no longer names from a history book.

They are living men.

Friends.

Comrades.

People who can bleed and die.

As Ottoman cannon tear the fortress apart and wave after wave of attackers climb its shattered walls, Gergely must combine the warfare of the twentieth century with the weapons, ingenuity and raw courage of the sixteenth.

But changing the odds of a battle is one thing.

Changing history is another.

Because the longer he remains in the past, the more dangerous one question becomes:

Was he sent there merely to witness history—or to change it?

And amid the blood, fire and destruction, something happens that no military training could ever have prepared him for.

He finds a reason to stay.

A reason worth fighting for.

Perhaps even a reason worth dying for.

People of Struggles is an epic historical adventure inspired by the legendary Siege of Eger of 1552, blending real historical figures and events with explosive military action, time travel, humour, friendship, sacrifice and an unforgettable love story.

It is a story of ordinary people confronted by impossible odds—and of what human beings can become when there is nowhere left to retreat.

A story of courage when courage should have run out.

Of hope when there should have been none.

And of a modern warrior who knows how history is supposed to unfold—but must decide how much he is willing to risk to become part of it.

The defenders of Eger did not fight because they believed they could not die.

They fought because behind them stood everything they refused to lose.

The army outside the walls expected an easy victory.

History remembers what happened instead.