It's been a few years since I have read this series, so I picked it up when I ran out of other things to read. I didn't expect to get so sucked in. I read the first 350 pages in about three days. I then got busy and took four days to read the last 150 pages, but I was still enthralled. I forgot just how much I love these books.

Reading this reminded me of how much I love learning about World War Two. I especially love the LDS aspect of these stories. I'm not usually a big fan of LDS fiction, but Dean Hughes does it well. He's not preachy. He's simply looking at the war stories from the perspective of a Mormon family. It poses interesting questions when Alex ends up fighting the German people when only a few years earlier he was teaching them the Gospel. Hughes covers every front of the war through the children of this one family, including the home front in Salt Lake City.