[Children of the Promise 02] • Since You Went Away

Wally Thomas didn t know how many days and nights he had been marching up the

coast of the Bataan Peninsula.  He was almost too numb to think, too full

of pain.  He tried to keep a steady pace, but the guards pressured the

prisoners to keep moving, forced them close together, and in their exhaustion

the men stumbled and knocked each other off stride.  When that happened,

the extra effort was almost overwhelming; there were times when Wally though he

would go down - and not get up - the way so many other prisoners had already

done.

With each day getting worse in the Bataan death march, Wally could die of

hunger, exposure, or even violence.  Will his growing faith be enough to

pull him through?

Bobbi, now a nurse in the navy, meets a handsome young officer.  She s

not sure how she feels about him, however, or whether he feels anything at all

for her.

Alex is in training as a paratrooper, but can he stick it out?  And even

if he can, how can he bring himself to fight the German people, whom he learned

to love on his mission?

Even young Gene knows he ll be joining the service, but he wonders what kind

of a soldier he ll make.

In Since You Went Away, the second volume of the Children of the Promise

series, author Dean Hughes continues his saga of the Thomas family as they

struggle to survive World War II.   If you re interested in Church of

world history, or if you re simply looking for a powerful LDS novel, you won t

want to miss Since You Went Away.

Children of the Promise dramatically portrays the impact of World War II on

an ordinary family of Latter-day Saints who are striving, in a tumultuous time,

to be true to the values and ideals they have been taught.  If you haven t

yet met the Thomas family, you are in for a real delight!  Find out why

tens of thousands of people have loved reading about Alex, Wally, Bobbi, Gene,

and a whole supporting cast of wonderful characters who find themselves caught

in the storms of war.  The new paperback edition of the bestselling epic

novels is the perfect format for carrying along as well as sharing with

friends.

Latter-day Saints often look to Joseph Smith s time in order to understand

Church history.  But Church history encompasses all that has occurred in

the Church since that vital era, and each age faces its own challenges.

Set in World War II, Children of the Promise is an epic series that will take

you to the battlefront, to Germany, Japan, and the Philippines.  But it

will also take you to the home front in the Salt Lake Valley, where an ordinary

LDS family struggles to survive both physically and spiritually.

This sweeping saga recreates the spirit of a time: the movies, the music, the

love stories, the emotional drama of families being pulled apart - and then

brought together again.