A Promise of Home: WW2 Family Saga
- ISBN-10
- 1946887196
- ISBN-13
- 9781946887191
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022-11-21
- Author
- Kathryn Spurgeon
Description
As WW2 heats up, many young men from Fremont's hometown of Shawnee, Oklahoma enlist or get drafted. Word filters in about the wounded, the missing in action, and those who have died. Fremont Pope hopes to avoid the draft. To do his part, he finds a job at an ammunition plant in Colorado while his wife, mission-minded Sibyl, agrees to the move, hoping to teach women what she's learned. The couple is also relieved to leave their cantankerous family behind in Oklahoma. And then their family follows them to Colorado. Of all things! When they have to move again, Fremont's boss offers an amazing promotion back east. Their other choice is to move to New Mexico for mission work. It's a tough choice. Plunge ahead to a lucrative corporate job or help a small new church grow? They yearn to go home, but where is home? What does God want them to do? Are they willing to give up their dreams and begin again? A view of World War Two from families who remained in the U.S.The fourth book in the Promise Series carries the reader through a timeless family saga based on a compelling true story.Spurgeon received the Illumination Award for "A Promise to Break" the first book in the series."Exceptionally well written, making it a consistently compelling read from beginning to end." James. A. Cox, Midwest Book Reviewer
