PRAGUE COUNTERPOINT BY BODIE & BROCK THOENE

PRAGUE COUNTERPOINT by BODIE & BROCK THOENE is the second book in the Zion Covenant series.  It is especially meaningful for me as I have been to Vienna recently, and been to the Judenplatz where the Jews lived before the second world war, and where they were brutally attacked by the Nazis when Hitler took over Vienna in March 1938. We then see Hitler making plans to take over Czechoslovakia, while Britain and France passively stand by and watch, in spite of Churchill's warnings and Hitler's diabolical acts against the Jews and the weak - anyone who didn't fit his Arian mould.  I have read all the books in the Zion Covenant and Zion Chronicles series several times each.  They are wonderfully realistic - not only are the character studies excellent, but we get an incredible insight into how things really were in those days.  We also get to see the horrors of the Holocaust and of war in general.  Brock Thoene is a historian, and his contribution is evident throughout.
Leah Feldstein is a Jewess who plays the cello at the Musikverrein with Elisa Lindheim/Murphy who plays the violin.  Elisa is also Jewish, the daughter of Theo Lindheim, once a well known businessman of Berlin, who has just escaped from Dachau.  While Elisa is blond and doesn't look Jewish, she has married Murphy to get an American passport and for Murphy to help in her father's escape from Dachau.  Theo is a Jewish believer in Christ who was imprisoned and he and his wife live in Prague now, where they hope to be safe from Hitler's advance.  
Eliza's husband Murphy is an American news reporter who is trying to get the truth about Hitler's atrocities to Britain, France and America.  He meets with Churchill, as does Thomas von Kleistmann, who is in the German army and is secretly in opposition to Hitler.  Messages are passed through a bookseller in Vienna and one in Paris.
Walter Kronenberger, a German news reporter, has lost his wife in an enforced sterilization operation, and he is afraid he will lose his five year old sons, Louis and Charles as well.  Charles was born with a very disfigured mouth and Hitler is determined to kill this "vermin".  Walter sends the two to Leah at the Musikverrein, and she and Eliza  help in their escape.  Murphy gets possession of Walter's "testament" which he is determined to publish so that people hear the truth of what has happened to the Kronenberger family.  It is very exciting and we see the incredible selflessness of people who literally lay down their lives that others may live.
The Thoenes' love for God's chosen people is evident, and we see the true love of Christ in those who choose to love the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  I feel it is important to read the books in sequence, and I have found it really worthwhile to do so.