Author : Larry R. Sherman
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781629079745
To Hide Behind a Wall by Larry R. Sherman Pdf
"A young American airman, Edward Koontz, is stationed at Antrium in Northern Ireland in 1942. He is befriended by an Anglican priest and a pretty woman, Janice Bell and her husband Lance. In September 1943, Ed's plane is shot down over Belgium and he is declared missing in action. He is found by Benedictine monks who hide him in the monastery as a lay brother until liberated in 1944. He experience war trauma when assigned to bury the dead after a bombing raid. He becomes a Christian through the monastery Prior. The war in Europe comes to an end and Janice's husband dies. Ed goes home but is torn between finishing an engineering degree, returning to the monastery in Belgium, or to Northern Ireland to pursue the beautiful women he met there."