In This Hospitable Land, Lynmar Brock Jr.
In This Hospitable Land, Lynmar Brock Jr.
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In This Hospitable Land

Author: Lynmar Brock Jr.

Narrator: David Baker

Unabridged: 14 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/04/2012


Synopsis

Award Winning Finalist in the Fiction: Historical category of the International Book AwardsWhen the Germans invade Belgium in 1940, chemistry professor André Severin fears the worst. His colleagues believe their social and political positions will protect them during the occupation, but André knows better. He has watched Hitler’s rise to power and knows the Nazis will do anything to destroy their enemies. For the Severins are Jews, non-practicing, yes, but that won’t matter to the Germans—or to the Belgians desperate to protect themselves by informing on their neighbors. And so André and his brother Alin take their parents, wives, and children and flee south. But when France falls to the Nazis, the refugees are caught in a rural farming community where their only hope for survival is to blend in with the locals. Fortunately, the Severins have come to Huguenot country, settled by victims of religious persecution who risk their own lives to protect the Jewish refugees and defy the pro-Nazi government. And as the displaced family grows to love their new neighbors, André and Alin join forces with the French Resistance to help protect them. Based on one family’s harrowing true story of survival, In This Hospitable Land is an inspirational novel about courage and the search for home in the midst of chaos.

About Lynmar Brock Jr.

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Charlie on April 27, 2011

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

Goodreads review by Write on January 31, 2021

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

Goodreads review by Cookie on June 01, 2018

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

Goodreads review by John B Gajan on December 27, 2016

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

Goodreads review by Sally on June 12, 2022

Not well written but absorbing......more