Far from Home (Children of the Promise)

I lost this book out of this set. I was so glad to find another hard copy to add back in to my original set. Dean Hughes is a gifted writer and I love to collect his books as they are published.

I thought it is a wonderful book and goes along with the rest of the series. Thanks.

Good condition. Very pleased.

love this series!

Take my advice, just buy the whole series now. As I turned the last page of this book, I jumped up, ran down to the store and bought Volume 4. I was late to this series, hearing people rave about it for several years before I purchased the first one. Now I can't put them down. In Far From Home, Alex is still fighting the Nazis, holding down a command and wondering daily how he will survive and keep his men safe. Wally is still a prisoner war in the infamous Japanese P.O.W. camps. As his health violently deterioates, and the torture exceeds what he believes he is able to withstand, he wonders how he will make it to the next day, let alone to freedom at the end of the war. As the other family members face their hardships, we are once again drawn so deeply into this family we feel they are our family. Another brilliant job by Dean Hughes. Go ahead, click the BUY NOW button and save yourself the trouble of waiting for these books to come one at a time.

I'm amazed at how Dean Hughes keeps these books so interesting. By the time you finish this book, you will have read something like 1300+ pages of the same story, yet its still such an amazing one, and the interest level only increases. This series is the best of any that I have ever read. Volume # 3 involves some of the worst times of the war, and the suffering is painful to read at times, yet it is such a blessing to know the sacrafices of those who lived during those times.

This has certainly been an interesting series. I think I learned more about what it's like to be in a war than I ever did from watching "Saving Private Ryan" or any other war movie I have seen. You FEEL what it's like to be a soldier, or a prisoner of war, or a refugee, or even the family back home. I never realized how much the war affected the families, giving them the same sense of hopelessness and helplessness that other participants in the war have felt. It doesn't quite reach the level of spirituality that I felt from "The Work and the Glory" series, which may be why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5, but I am really looking forward to number 5 (I just finished number 4).

Everyone, you have to read this book you will never regreat it! I can not express the emotion I felt when I read this book. I was the kind of person who pretended that the war didn't really happen. I didn't even want to watch war movies. But after reading all three Children of the Promise (I'm on the waiting list for the 4th book) I respect the people that lived during the war and everything the had to suffer through. These books have taught me so much that I can proudly say that i would fight for my counry and my freedom.