Fire and Steel, Vol. 1: A Generation Rising by Gerald Lund {Book Review}

I received this book through Deseret Book Company in exchange for my review. All opinions are 100% my own.

I just wanted to do a quick shout out on a book series I just recently started reading called Fire and Steel, Vol. 1: A Generation Rising by Gerald Lund.  Like I mentioned in my last Gerald Lund book review, I am very impressed with his writing and how detailed he is with his historical accounts.  I love the way Gerald Lund makes history come alive.  I can learn so much about a historical time period from his books. He makes it way more interesting then my history books in high school ever did! This book starts out a little slow and has a few pages that talk about history and what was going on during that time period.  Get through that part, it’s a little slow but it will help you understand what is going on through out the book.  I’ve heard the story is amazing to follow and that by the time you get to the end of the book you can’t wait for the next one in the series!

Here is a little summary about this book from the Deseret Book Website…

The strongest steel is forged in the hottest flames. From master storyteller Gerald N. Lund comes a new blockbuster series chronicling the lives of two families who will face some of the most turbulent times in history as they are tried to their very cores. Will they be tempered and strengthened by the hammering blows, will they bend to the point of breaking, or will they completely shatter?
As volume one begins, life could not be more promising for the Eckhardts. They finally have a son, Hans, the male heir they have longed for and a child of such brilliance and promise that his success seems certain. But as youthful Hans’s ambition takes him away from his family and their small Bavarian village, the winds of unrest in Europe are about to erupt into the greatest war the world has ever known. Kicking off a story that will cross generations—and continents—the Eckhardts must brace themselves to weather the storms and turmoil that lie ahead. Only through sheer determination and fortitude will they be able to pass through the refiner’s fire and come out stronger and more united than ever before.

Bio about Gerald Lund-

Elder Gerald N. Lund received his B.A. and M.S. degrees in sociology from Brigham Young University. He served for thirty-five years in the Church Educational System, and he served as a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy from 2002 to 2008. He is a prolific and bestselling author of both fiction and nonfiction and is best known for his historical novels, including The Work and the Glory series, Fire of the Covenant, The Kingdom and the Crown series, and The Undaunted. He and his late wife, Lynn, are the parents of seven children

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Happy Reading!