Tricia Goyer WWII Series: From Dust and Ashes, Night Song, Dawn of a Thousand Nights, and Arms of Deliverance available for $13.75 for Kindle

Tricia Goyer WWII Series: From Dust and Ashes, Night Song, Dawn of a Thousand Nights, and Arms of Deliverance available for $13.75 for Kindle. (I don’t know how long this price will last.)

This set includes all four books of the Tricia Goyer WWII series:

From Dust and Ashes, Night Song, Dawn of a Thousand Nights, and Arms of Deliverance.
In From Dust and Ashes, it is 1945 and a group of American soldiers liberate a Nazi concentration camp. Helene is the abandoned wife of an SS guard who has fled to avoid arrest. Overcome by guilt, she begins to help meet the needs of survivors. Throughout the process, she finds her own liberation - from spiritual bondage, sin, and guilt. Readers will be intrigued and touched by this fascinating story of love, faithfulness, and courage amidst one of the darkest chapters of mankind's history.

In Night Song, Tricia Goyer tells the little-known but true story of the orchestra started by prisoners in Hitler's Mauthausen death camp. This courageous orchestra played the American national anthem as Allied troops arrived to liberate the camps. Around the orchestra story, Tricia weaves the fictional stories of a beautiful member of the Austrian resistance, the American GI who loves her, and a young prisoner who fakes his way into the camp orchestra in a desperate attempt to stay alive.

In Dawn of a Thousand Nights, readers journey with Dan Fletcher and Libby Conner, both U.S. pilots fighting in WWII's Pacific Theater. Fletcher is captured by the Japanese and is forced to endure the horror of the Bataan Death March in the Philippines. It is here that he encounters Natsu Hidiki, a guard whose nagging conscience won't let him ignore the human degradation in which he is participating. Libby Conner is a WASP (Women's Air Force Service Pilot), who ferries military planes between Hawaii and the South Pacific. By the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, she has turned the head of Fletcher in no small way. Readers will be captivated by this tale of dignity and honor triumphing in the midst of a very dark time in history.

In Arms of Deliverance, Mary and Lee have gone from best friends to competing WWII journalists, but a bombing raid gone wrong puts Mary's life at risk and sends Lee on a heroic rescue attempt through the fierce teeth of combat. Then, amidst an adventurous struggle for freedom, they uncover the story of the unspeakable Lebensborn atrocity.With equal doses of adrenaline and poignancy, Tricia Goyer's storytelling places readers not only behind enemy lines into the heat of battle, but also deep into the innermost sanctuary of the human heart.(from Amazon)

If you are interested in learning about Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, who was Tricia Goyer’s inspiration for the main character in Arms of Deliverance book four of the Liberator's Series. Please visit Writes of Passage to read her article Lee Miller, Penning World War II.

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Blessings,

Guest post - Joshua Chamberlain by Zachariah

I hope you enjoy my son, Zachariah’s post.~Tammi

Hello Everyone!

This is a report that I did for Maine Studies at my local 4-H club. I hope you all like it.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was born in the Brewer of 1828, the oldest of five children. When he turned twenty, he moved south to Brunswick to study at Bowdoin Collage. While there, he met Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe; who read him parts of the yet unpublished Uncle Tom's Cabin. He also joined some groups during those four years. After graduation he moved back north to Bangor to study at the Bangor Theological Seminary, where he stays for the next three years. Immediately after that, he returns to Brunswick and marries Miss Fanny Adams, the daughter of a local pastor. The marriage took place in 1855. He takes up a job as a professor of rhetoric, and soon teaches every subject in the book; excepting science and mathematics. Because of his knowledge of nine languages besides English, he gained the title of Professor of Modern Languages.

When the Civil War broke out in 1861 Chamberlain was all for it. He encouraged his students to drop out of school and enlist. He did so himself when the Collage kicked him out for said practices. He joined the 20th Maine Volunteer Regiment, becoming lieutenant colonel in mid-1862. His first battle was miserable, mostly because of the way they were forced to spend the night. The next wasn't much better because of an outbreak of smallpox. Chamberlain's next fight was the one that gave him fame, the Battle of Gettysburg.

For those of you who don't know, Gettysburg was a three day fight. The 20th Maine didn't do much in the first day. In the second day, they were ordered to go to the far left of the army, to Little Round Top. The Confederates, trying to defeat the Union so that they could move north, decided to attack Little Round Top, swing around, and attack the Union from the rear. There were three regiments be-sides the 20th ME on the hill, so the South decides to go around it at first instead of capturing it right off. But to do that they must get through the 20th ME. The 15th Alabama charges. Sometime during the ensuing fight, the 20th ME got broken into two groups; one facing roughly southeast, the other one (with now Colonel Chamberlain) facing west. Running out of ammunition, he ordered the south-east branch to swing around behind the Alabamians and strike with their bayonets. 101 Southern men were captured using that maneuver, probably saving the entire northern army. I'm not exaggerating. This gave him the nickname "Lion of the Round Top".

After that, he took a leave of absence due to malaria. During his next battle, he had a severe injury yet refused to retreat. He was forced to soon, though, when he passed out due to lack of blood. This wound 1) promoted him to brigadier general 2) led to his eventual death. After fighting quite a few other battles, President Lincoln dubbed him major general of the United States, which at the time was as high as you could go. Chamberlain was selected to lead the parade of surrendering Confederates to the Appomattox Court House to formally surrender in April of 1865.

After the war, he spent four years as Governor of Maine, then returned to Bowdoin Collage where he was elected president in 1871. He stayed in that position for twelve years. He performed various jobs for the State of Maine and wrote several books. He received the Medal of Honor for his deeds at Gettysburg in 1893 and delivered several speeches on the old battleground. Chamberlain died of his war wounds in 1914, the last to die from Civil War wounds. He was 86.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Chamberlain

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2010/ms010265.pdf

http://www.civilwarhome.com/jlchamberlainbio.htm

 

I’ll be looking forward to doing my next guest post.

I hope you all have a good day,

Zachariah

Mystery of History Volume 2: The Early Church and the Middle Ages

History is one of my favorite subjects to teach, and my favorite history curriculum to teach from is The Mystery of History series by Linda Lacour Hobar. I love that I am able to use it to teach all my children, each at their own level, at the same time.

Mystery of History vol. 1 covers Creation through Jesus' death and resurrection and Mystery of History vol. 2 covers the early church and the middle ages. The curriculum is complete and contains:

*Three lessons per week
*Fun projects and hands on activities
*Photos from around the word
*Exercises, quizzes, quarterly work sheets, and semester tests
*Weekly timeline and mapping assignments
*"Memory Cards"
*Easy to use format
*Reproducibles
*Supplemental reading and resource lists

I like how easily I we can adapt this curriculum to notebooking, but we also like the timeline, and memory cards. The pre-tests are a fun way for the children to see what they already know, and we do these orally, as well as, many of the other tests. It is really a fun for us to learn together.

If you want a complete history curriculum that is easy to use, fun to teach and learn from, and that the whole family would enjoy, than I know you will want to check out The Mystery of History series.

The Mystery of History vol. 2 is currently available through Bright Ideas Press for $49.95. There are three volumes in this series, and numerous options for supplemental resources and books, as well as, a CD audio set, and a reproducibles CD set, that you may be interested in also.





Disclosure: This product was provided to our family for free as members of the 2009-2010 Old Schoolhouse Magazine Homeschool Crew. Reviews and opinions expressed in this blog are our own.

Bible Timeline and Maps

I enlisted my husband to help me with this review because of his Bible school background and will start with his thoughts.

"At first glance, being familiar with historical line charts, I thought a circular line chart would be very difficult and confusing. This theory was dispelled after a few minutes of examination. As a student of eschatology, I was very impressed with the inferences to Daniel's 70 weeks and the ability to trace the ancestry of the participants in the coming Ezekiel 38 and 39 conflicts.

I found the chart fascinating and insightful. Date, events, and accomplishments are easy to find. I would recommend the chart to homeschoolers as a good means in historical studies."

I also liked the chart. I liked the visual of the genealogies, and seeing who was living at the same time. There are times when we look at people in isolated events and forget that the people were living and interacting with other people we meet in the Bible, and they had contemporaries who were also living at the same time.

In 1975 Bill and Margaret Agard began to continue the work on the Bible Timeline that was first printed in 1931. They have put many hours into making this a product they feel good about offering to you and me. The chart is a 37"x45" poster which you could hang on your wall or bulletin board, and is a great reference tool.

The Bible Chart sells for $29.97 plus shipping and handling. If you are interested in this Bible Chart you will find ordering information Here






Disclosure: This product was provided to our family for free as members of the 2009-2010 Old Schoolhouse Magazine Homeschool Crew. Reviews and opinions expressed in this blog are our own.