Peckinpah Today: New Essays on the Films of Sam Peckinpah
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Written exclusively for this collection by today's most significant writers and researchers on Sam...
Foretastes of Heaven in Lutheran Church Music Tradition: Johann Mattheson and Christoph Raupach on Music in Time and Eternity
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In the two centuries after Martin Luther's affirmation that music stood second only to theology,...
NKJV: Airship Genesis Kids Study Bible
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"With a new generation rising up, we have the chance to leave a legacy of great inheritance. Airship...
Paradise Lost: A Drama of Unintended Consequences
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Celebrate the 350th anniversary of Milton's Paradise Lost in 2017 with Paradise Lost - A Drama of...
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Elizabeth Ammons
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In the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any book in the world except the...
Paradise Lost
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John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's...
What Lot's Wife Saw
Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Yiannis Panas
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It's been twenty-five years since the Overflow flooded Southern Europe, drowning Rome, Vienna and...
TravelersWife4Life (31 KP) rated Love's Allegiance in Books
Feb 24, 2021
Linda Shenton Matchet really got her characters into the WWII era, by the ways in which they conversed, the clothes described, really everything matched the era of WWI. It was as if Linda Shenton Matchet transported me there. I thought that the characters had great interactions, most of the reactions to things were believable, and they were overall well-developed characters. Personally, I liked how the story was loosely based on the Biblical story of Isaac and Rachel, I thought it was a unique premise for a WWII era novel to have. This book is technically the fourth book in Linda Shenton Matchet’s Wartime Brides series, however, it can be read as a stand-alone without you getting lost or confused (I have not read the previous books in the series yet).
I believe that Linda Shenton Matchet did a good job conveying an often-controversial topic; the role Conscious Objectors (CO) played during WWII. She made me look at it in a way I had not previously done, which I appreciated, (Not to say that I fully understand that point of view, but I think I have a better picture of it now). I did think that the book moved a little fast and I wished I could have known the characters better. However, this is part of a series so maybe the next book will continue to grow the characters more.
I give this book a 4 out of 5 stars for the great characters, the full immersion into the WWII era, and for making me see a different side of a Conscious Objector (CO). I did receive this book in return for my honest feedback. The thoughts and opinions expressed within are my own.
Biodiversity and Earth History
Jens Boenigk, Sabina Wodniok and Edvard Glucksman
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This uniquely interdisciplinary textbook explores the exciting and complex relationship between...
His Truth is Marching On
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John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus...