The Twilight of Courage: A Novel [Paperback]

Bodie Thoene (Author), Brock Thoene (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1994

The Gold Medallion Book Award winner by Bodie and Brock Thoene. The Twilight of Courage is a retelling of World War II that intertwines the stories of two American journalists' escape from the collapse of Warsaw, with those of an orphaned baby's journey to Jerusalem, a mathematician's attempt to crack Nazi code, and more.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc (September 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785275967
• ISBN-13: 978-0785275961
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,010,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mallowcups for Bodie and Brock, April 30, 2002

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Tracy Groot - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Twilight of Courage: A Novel (Paperback)

Under duress, I recently confessed my favorite Thoene novel: Twilight of Courage. (It's like admitting you have a favorite child.) A friend of mine who has read only non-fiction books for the past 7 years agreed to read this one only because it is fiction based on fact. He loved it. (I, in turn, had to read a non-fiction book. He chose for me "Fate is the Hunter", a book so well-written I couldn't help reading it.)

I told my friend about the background to this book, which I know because I wrote a review in the Grand Rapids Press years ago: the Thoenes spent four months on a barge in Paris, with assistants, researching this work. They asked elderly Parisians this question: Where were you the day France fell? Seemed they all had a story. From those stories came this book. It's what got my friend to read it.

That's what I love about the Thoenes' work. Winston Churchill said something about hinges, that isn't interesting upon what small hinges events turn. The Thoenes seek out those hinges and give them a rightful place by recording them. Fact couched in fiction? Sometimes that's the only way a story can be told. That it is told at all is the only thing that matters. From Marcus Aurelius..."Look beneath the surface; let not the quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee..."

Mallowcups for Bodie and Brock. Cheers for their dedication to rusty old hinges.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars On War and God, November 30, 2001

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Ken (East Lansing, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Twilight of Courage: A Novel (Paperback)

Quite possibly the two greatest driving forces in the universe, Brock and Boede Thoene write a version of fiction so real, it makes me want to go down to the library and search for the characters names in the microfisched newspapers. I've been reading their work since I was twelve and I get more and more out of each book every time I read them. This book is a true portrait of struggle with subtle but deeply embedded overtones of faith. The Twilight of Courage is one of brightest stars in my library and a magnificent read.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, August 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Twilight of Courage: A Novel (Paperback)

An excellent book but we do need the sequel. I pray the writer will continue the story. Zion Covenant is one of the best series of books that I have ever read.