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Tender Victory: A Novel Kindle Edition

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New York Times Bestseller: The “touching and effective” story of an American minister who returns home from WWII with five orphaned Holocaust survivors (The New York Times).

Rev. Johnny Fletcher serves wounded soldiers from the battlefield as a military chaplain during World War II. His forté is spiritual solace in the darkest of times, but his life changes when he performs a public heroic act: facing down an angry mob intent on attacking five young Holocaust survivors. Upon learning they have no homes or families to return to, Fletcher decides to bring them to America.

To his dismay, his coal-mining community of Barryfield, Pennsylvania, greets this makeshift family with prejudice and distrust. Beneath the town’s placid surface run buried religious divisions. Fletcher’s commitment to raising the children according to their individual faiths—two Protestant, two Catholic, and one Jewish—meets with horrific levels of intolerance. Dealing with such prejudice turns more sinister still when a local newspaper publisher cynically uses the story for his own purposes.

Together with Lorry Summerfield, the beautiful, disillusioned daughter of Barryfield’s most powerful figure, Fletcher must try to awaken the townspeople to the better angels of their nature before it’s too late.

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About the Author

Taylor Caldwell (19001985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, who also wrote under various pen names. In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons. She published forty novels, many of which were New York Times bestsellers. Her best-known works include the historical sagas. Her Dear and Glorious Physician, a portrayal of the life of St. Luke, and Great Lion of God, about the life of St. Paul, are among the bestselling religious novels of all time. Her last novel, Answer as a Man hit the New York Times bestseller list before its official publication date.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07G4SQFN3
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (October 2, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 2, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 20765 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 632 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #101,487 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #159 in Literary Sagas
- #397 in Romance Literary Fiction
- #1,062 in Saga Fiction

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Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900 – August 30, 1985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback.

In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons. Taylor Caldwell's best-known works include Dynasty of Death, Dear and Glorious Physician (about Saint Luke), Ceremony of the Innocent, Pillar of Iron, The Earth is the Lord's (about Genghis Khan) and Captains and the Kings. Her last major novel, Answer As a Man, appeared in 1980.

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Helen D

Best read Ever

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2024

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This book has everything. Pure and complete personalities that work together to complete their purpose in the story. The parson is portrayed beautifully throughout his trials, his responses, his beliefs, his conscience, his struggles. So well written. Thank you!!

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2021

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A beautiful story of a larger than life man...a man of faith and courage. Set in post WW II when the world was still a wreck, and fear of outside peoples and ideologies seeped into our lives. Still speaks to us today.

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Sandra Dowling

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Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2021

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It was a good book. It was interesting to see a portrait of the U.S. post World War II. I am a baby bomber born in 1946, it brought back memories of my early childhood and the ideas of that era. At times, I wondered if author was current events set in post war times and then realized that it was written shortly after the period the book portrayed.

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Sharon Lee

A little bit of everything

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2022

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Some slow, some fast, some unrealistic, some inspiring, some preachy, some not. Interesting insight religiously speaking. Ms. Caldwell is certainly hung up on Communism though. Overall not bad, though it's not my favorite Taylor Caldwell book. Getting into Captains and the Kings was a bit tedious, but once there I loved it. One of my all time favorites, as is Answer as a Man, Caldwell's final novel..

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Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2023

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I’m happy with this book. I expected it to be old. I hated reading until I read this book when I was about 15 years old; it totally hooked me on reading and all the wonderful adventures books provide.

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Mary E. Trimble

An uplifting, inspirational read

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2020

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It had been years since I’d read anything by Taylor Caldwell (1900 - 1985). Reading Tender Victory brought me back to my past admiration for this author.

Tender Victory, a novel first published in 1956, is about a former military chaplain, Reverend Johnny Fletcher, who served in Europe during World War II. It is now 1946 and Reverend Fletcher is seeking to pastor a church. He meets with resistence when members of prospective churches learn he has brought back from Europe five orphan children. The children, two Protestants, two Catholic, and one Jew, not only can’t speak English, they have been so traumatized by the horrors inflected upon them that they appear to be like wild animals.

Reverend Fletcher accepts a position in the small mining town of Barrymore, PA. He immediately finds friends and supporters, but many in the town are against him, not only because of these children, but they fear he will be instrumental in disturbing their status-quo. As it stands, the rich who live up in the hills, are getting even richer from the mining operations, but the average citizen who lives in town on lower elevations suffers from the dirty industrial air the mines produce.

As he continues to serve, Reverend Fletcher is challenged on many counts, but he firmly believes in the goodness of man, despite obvious evidence to the contrary.

I found Tender Victory an uplifting, inspirational read rich with the timeless themes of hope, faith and compassion.

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LINDA PULIAFICO

Taylor Caldwell brings the truth to readers about real life situations

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2020

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Taylor Caldwell writes about what was true decades ago and this still stands now in our turbulent society. She creates novels that keep you really there. Real life characters that you really embrace. Deep seated drama that keeps on giving. You will never forget any of her novels because they reach into your soul .Her novels are top quality, no triviality and corny writing.

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Adoption of war orphans of WW2

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2020

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I can unashamedly admit that this book is the best I have ever read. It deals with an American army chaplain, who returns home to the U.S. with four war orphans, whom he adopts as his own. His travels from town to town, church to church, where he fails to find one where he and the orphans are welcomed. This story is an emotional one. Keep the tissues handy.

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