Vienna Prelude, Zion Covenant Series #1
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A gripping story
I am very fond of History, and this story, a fiction with such a realistic background looks so real as we know these dark events happened not so long ago... Like it says, it allows reader to "discover the truth through fiction". A book for everyone to be read, as anti-Semitism is growing up again. I couldn't give up until the very last page !
The questions at the end of the book "Digging deeper" is a good opportunity to teach kids or young people who are often ignorant of that period of time and make them facing the right questions.
May 31, 2011
Hands down, the best book I've ever read.
I have always been an avid reader. A friend suggested this book to me and I was not quick to agree to read it. I didn't think I'd like the WWII setting. After the first few chapters the author ties the lives of the characters together, and I was hooked. I learned things I did not know I still needed to learn. My life was changed...and that does not often happen with a historical fiction book. This book, and the series, are wonderful...and this book inparticular holds it's place as my favorite all-time book!
December 10, 2010
Great reading!!! I have the whole series.. Hard to put down! Realistic history, yet highly informative & interesting!! Read this series first and then "The Zion Chronicles".. I will read again & then sell..Wish I could sell on this web site..
January 21, 2010
Ok, first of all, I can't wait until I'm able to read the rest of the books in this series. When I finished this one, for some reason, I was thinking it was a single novel - but there are 8 more!! This book actually dragged for me a little, but I think the actual thickness of it discouraged me the most, and I put it down for a few weeks. Last night, I picked it back up again, and this morning, I stayed in bed for hours until I'd read the entire thing!! An excellent book - well-written, suspenseful, politically and historically accurate. My main problem was the seeming overabundance of men ready to fall at the main character's feet. Don't let that stop you - read this book!!
February 22, 2008