Tender Victory, Taylor Caldwell
Tender Victory, Taylor Caldwell
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Tender Victory
A Novel

Author: Taylor Caldwell

Narrator: James Anderson Foster

Unabridged: 18 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/23/2020


Synopsis

Rev. Johnny Fletcher serves wounded soldiers from the battlefield as a military chaplain during World War II. His forté is spiritual solace in the darkest of times, but his life changes when he performs a public heroic act: facing down an angry mob intent on attacking five young Holocaust survivors. Upon learning they have no homes or families to return to, Fletcher decides to bring them to America.

To his dismay, his coal-mining community of Barryfield, Pennsylvania, greets this makeshift family with prejudice and distrust. Beneath the town's placid surface run buried religious divisions. Fletcher's commitment to raising the children according to their individual faiths—two Protestant, two Catholic, and one Jewish—meets with horrific levels of intolerance. Dealing with such prejudice turns more sinister still when a local newspaper publisher cynically uses the story for his own purposes.

Together with Lorry Summerfield, the beautiful, disillusioned daughter of Barryfield's most powerful figure, Fletcher must try to awaken the townspeople to the better angels of their nature before it's too late.

About Taylor Caldwell

Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback.

In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons. Caldwell's best-known works include Dynasty of Death, Dear and Glorious Physician (about Saint Luke), Ceremony of the Innocent, Pillar of Iron, The Earth Is the Lord's (about Genghis Khan), and Captains and the Kings. Her last major novel, Answer as a Man, appeared in 1980.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sonia on September 23, 2020

Why is this wonderful book not read more often? A Protestant Minister adopts a group of five orphans,after going through miles of red tape in the aftermath of the Second World War. Jean, Max, Pietro, Kathy and Emily have faced the ravages of the Second World War, orphans from different parts of Europ......more

Goodreads review by Mary on July 19, 2017

A Protestant minister is a chaplain in war torn Europe. He rescues five starving and traumatised orphans from the many scrabbling for survival in Germany and brings them home to America with him. He is deeply disturbed to find that his first parish will not accept his children and moves to a much po......more