While Mortals Sleep

     While I've mostly used this spot to tell you about some great books on women's history, today I want to tell you about a wonderful historical novel. I hope you enjoy the review and I encourage you to buy the book!

     While Mortals Sleep By Jack Cavanaugh While Mortals Sleep is an historical novel by veteran author Jack Cavanaugh, the first in his new series, Songs of the Night. It's about Reverend Josef Schumacher, pastor of a small church on the outskirts of Berlin. The minister had seen his father dragged away by the Nazi's, and begins to rebel against the Nazi government by training his own small youth corps to follow God rather than Hitler. While Josef's wife, Mady, is against his work at first. Her father is the former minister of the church her husband is pastoring and she is torn between loyalty to her husband and devotion to her father. She at last comes on board at great risk to herself. Together they work to rescue the spiritual lives of Germany's youth. Jack Cavanaugh has so skillfully interwoven his characters and plot that the reader cannot possibly anticipate what will happen when he turns the next page. One will experience joy, sorrow, rage and fear. You will be carried from tension to relief to surprise to shock.

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     You can purchase a copy of this book by emailing info@historyswomen.com with Mortals in the Subject line. The cost is $12.99, which includes shipping.