

In This Hospitable Land
Author: Lynmar Brock Jr.
Narrator: David Baker
Unabridged: 14 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 12/04/2012
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Lynmar Brock Jr.
Narrator: David Baker
Unabridged: 14 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 12/04/2012
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Lynmar Brock, Jr., is a native of Pennsylvania who grew up in the Philadelphia suburb of Newtown Square. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English and an MBA from Dartmouth College before joining the U.S. Navy in 1956. He served as an officer on a destroyer in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and later was transferred to the Pentagon, where he worked in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. After returning to civilian life, he took over operations of Brock and Company, his family’s food-services company, where he was president/CEO for forty-five years. He has also served on the board of directors of Rotary International, and his work with this worldwide service organization has taken him to India, Madagascar, Pakistan, and the Afghan border. In addition to In This Hospitable Land, Lynmar Brock is the author of Must Thee Fight and Genevieve. He is currently at work on his fourth book. He and his wife, Claudie, have two sons.
Lynmar Brock, Jr. creates an intimate portrait of a family's history during WWII. In This Hospitable Land details the hardships experienced by the Severin family. The expansive time they suffered is astounding and their determination to survive, memorable. Historians and those readers with a particu......more
This gentle yet unwavering view of the last years of World War II allowed me a greater understanding of the effects of Hitler’s mania to take over eastern and western Europe and exterminate the Jews and others that didn’t fit the Nazi worldview. Reading this right after the 2021 attack on the US Cap......more
This is a true account of the author’s wife and her family who had to flee Belgium during WW II. It is beautifully written and I enjoyed all the day to day activities portrayed. The family endured so many hardships while they were in hiding. It brought the futility of war and the cruelty of some peo......more
Suspenseful, engaging, historical novel I really loved this book and the way that key aspects of the Nazi occupation of France were woven through the experience of a particular Belgian family seeking refuge in the rugged French countryside. It made me appreciate how people came together in such a tim......more