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A Thousand Shall Fall (Shiloh Legacy)

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This book/series, as are all the Thoene books, is a wonderful story about post WWI. The families and their daily living is written as if you were there. You become so involved in this book, that I wanted to read it in a day! The focus of the daily life in middle America post WWI is God centered. Wonderful Story!

Great historical fiction with an even more important underlying theme. Just finished books 1 & 2... I have learned a lot more about the American history ( e.g. the experience of WWI, and what our soldiers had to come home to... or, in book 2, the experience of what it was like to be around the incredible stock market run-ups). More importantly - I completely got wrapped up in the characters and how they responded to the highs and lows that ultimately come with life - and how their faith actually grows stronger as a result.

Bodie Thoene is a master story-teller. She weaves multiple plots, characters, and events, both small and large, into a seamless story that you simply don't want to put down. I am always disappointed when the book ends because I've become so wrapped up in the historically accurate world of the characters, and I am glad for the other books in the series I have yet to read!
The world she depicts in The Shiloh Legacy series reflects the broad range of simple joys and heartbreaks of the average person or family. By the end of the novel, without realizing it, I've stopped to re-evaluate my own life and priorities and I see them in the bigger picture perspective.
Excellent!

THIS BOOK IS VERY INTERESTING ESPECIALLY FOR A PERSON LIKE ME THAT HAS NOT READ MUCH FICTION IN THE LAST 30 YEARS; IT VERY MUCH HELD MY ATTENTION. THE PLOT AND CHARACTERS WERE VERY BELIEVABLE. ALL THE CHARACTERS, SCENES AND ISSUES OF LIFE, THE STRIVINGS AND YEARNINGS OF THE MASSES FLOWED TOGETHER SO WELL.THE CONCEPT CARRIES YOU INTO THE MOOD AND MINDSET OF THE TIME SETTING AND MOST OF ALL SHOWS THE HAND OF GOD WORKING IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN. THIS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF AMERICANA LITERATURE, WHICH SHOULD LEAVE A PERSON UPBEAT EVEN EXULTANT.

This book series is beyond fabulous. Your emotions will go all over the place; laughing, crying, and being seriously scared.
It's my firm belief that God has given these authors a talent thorugh their books to show true human suffering. It's important to read these books so we don't forget what really happened! It's so easy to take for granted freedom, and prejudice, and unbelievable poverty. I thank God every day for the little things because I read books like this and remember.
All I can say is, you will be forever changed after you read this Shiloh series. Blessings!

I was born and raised in the area of Shiloh, though the name was changed before I was born. In Thoene's book, you can see the woods and streams, smell the woodsmoke and fried chicken and see the gleaming yellow sky just before the tornado. Thoene's descriptions of rural northwest Arkansas are straight from my granny's mouth it seems! The plots are compelling and the characters well developed. I enjoyed learning more about the 1929 Crash and the subsequent problems caused by greedy investors...and the realization that it is just money, after all! I can't wait to begin reading the third Shiloh book....but my household chores are piling up because I couldn't put this book down!

"A Thousand Shall Fall" is a historical novel set in September and October of 1929 and leads up to the stock market crash. This novel is the second in the series, but you don't need to have read "In My Father's House" to understand this one (though it will make it more enjoyable). Reading this novel out of order will partly spoil some events in the previous novel.

There were several point of view characters from different parts of America and different stations in life. The characters were interesting, and Birch's family was very engaging. Birch's sons got into a lot of very funny scrapes. However, the storyline with the boy, David, pushed past what I felt was realistic.

Since we know the stock market crash is only weeks away and will affect everyone in the book, the suspense was high from beginning to end. There were also some relationship tensions and occasional physical danger to main characters to add suspense.

The historical and setting details brought the story alive in my imagination. Most of the historical details were about class differences and how prohibition and the stock market affected society. The book wrapped up very quickly and left a number of loose ends, but they might be answered in the next book in the series.

Several of the main characters were Christians. However, there wasn't much religious content until near the very end when they have to decide to trust in God even if they loose everything else.

There was no sex. There was no bad language. Overall, I'd recommend this enjoyable and well-written historical novel.

I had given In My Father's House only 4 stars because I was disappointed in the ending. I am so glad that I finished the three books in the Shiloh Legacy. The development of characters was just brilliant. I strongly recommend the Shiloh Legacy books.

Almost 20 years ago my mother found Bodie Thoene's books on audio at the library. Every night I would listen to Claire Walsh read the continueing saga of the Tucker family. I must have listened to it a million times. Her voice was so soothing. Bodie's stories were so gripping. I grew up along side David Meyer and Bobby and Tommy Tucker. I could taste Trudy's cooking. I could smell the crisp air of an Arkansas morning. I loved everything about it. It was enchanting. Completely enchanting.

I started reading the book two nights ago and true to Bodie Thoene's style, I was drawn in right away. The buying and receiving transaction was good; no problems. I recommend the book and the seller.