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The Flying Cavalier (The House of Winslow #23) | 
 enlarge | Author: Gilbert Morris
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 522188
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 318
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0764221159
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780764221156
ASIN: 0764221159
Publication Date: November 1999
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THE HOUSE OF WINSLOW / BOOK 23 All the Love and the Joy of Days Gone by Had Turned Against Him in a Soul-Destroying Fury. [book title] Convinced that airplanes are about to change the nature of military warfare, Lieutenant Lance Winslow of the British Royal Flying Corps goes to France to train with the best fliers in the world. On Christmas Eve of 1908, he meets Noelle Laurent on the snowy streets of Paris and falls in love at first sight. Their marriage brings tremendous joy into his life, but their love cannot stop the Great War's approach...nor can his plane stop every German bomber that crosses the English Channel. In the spring of 1914, Josephine Hellinger quits her job with the New York to become a free-lance war correspondent in France. Knowing that she would never be sent as a female journalist on such a dangerous assignment, she is emboldened to strike out on her own to cover the war through her front-line stories and photographs. When Josephine meets Lance Winslow, he is hardly the same pilot who married a lovely French bride five years before. Out of the bitterness of personal tragedy, he lives only to hate Germans and to kill as many as he can in combat. Can Josephine make a difference before it's too late?
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 Good, has a few unbelieveable twists. September 7, 2006
This book introduces a totally new character, Lance Winslow, who is an 8th or 9th-generation descendant from Gilbert Winslow's grandson William, who was sent to England in #3 The Indentured Heart and pretty much hasn't been heard from again. It covers Lance's courtship, 5-year marriage, and the death of his French wife in the first 5 chapters, as well as his wife's younger sister Dani's crush on Lance, then goes on to introduce 3 more important characters; Josephine Zellenger, a lady journalist who becomes good friends with Lance's dead wife's family; Logan Smith, son of "Gallant Outlaw" Lobo Smith and grandson of "Wounded Yankee" Zacharias Winslow, and Revelation Brown, Logan's best friend and mechanic who askes everyone he meets, "Are you saved?" which usually unnerves or confuses them, even though his intentions are good.
This book is proof that you can't judge a book by its cover -literally! Although Lance and Josephine are pictured on the front, the actual "Flying Cavalier" is Logan, as stated several times in the story itself.
 Cliched bit of Christian fiction, disappointment for Winslow fans September 19, 2005
I love the House of Winslow series and felt seriously robbed by the addition of Lance to the family tree without previous mention in any other book. If Morris wants to add to the tree, he should do so in a way that doesn't feel forced. None of the characters in this one are well rounded, and some are so cliched it's painful. You just know when the previously undeveloped soldier mentions a fiancee he's going to die within two pages. The same with the unsaved soldier who suddenly finds Christ and starts evangelizing. I enjoy much of Morris' work, but this is the kind of work that gives Christian fiction a bad name. If you like the House of Winslow series, you can safely skip this one. Morris also seems to be having minor characters use the exact same quotes about trivial things in the books, i.e. wanting a conversion experience with twenty car-wrecks. In both this book and the previous characters use the EXACT same lines. Skip this one, the next one is much better!
 You can't put it down March 2, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've enjoyed reading the entire House of Winslow series! I'm only 15 and I enjoyed the first book of this series, so much that I had to continue. I ended with this book and hope to see many more. Gilbert Morris did such a wonderful job writing his books that I've read others and one of his sons! He is by far my favorite author! His books encourage me as a Christian! Lance Winslow is a man living in France (where he went after his wife died) and is fighting against World War 1 against the Germans with airplanes. Logan Smith is wounded and sent to a hospital where Lance's sister-in-law Danielle, nurses him back to health. Jo Hellinger comes to write about this war for newspapers all the way from New York. All of them are courageous and in need of God's love. A friend, Revelation Brown, helps them all with his scripture quoting and love. The story will entrance you and you won't be able to set it down for long!
Charming January 24, 2000
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The story of Lance Winslow, in this book, was very interesting, to me. I had been bewildered from the beginning at where Lance was coming from, since he wasn't listed with the American part of the Winslow clan. I was pleased to find out, toward the end of the book, where his family had come from. His losing his wife had been very dramatic, but God had something in store for him. His daughter, Gabby, was a well written character and was charming to me, as the reader. Jo Hellinger was interesting in that she had a lot of spunk doing what she did. Mr. Morris did a good job with his book, and I hope he can keep up and finish writting the series. If he is only at World War I, he has a long way to go still.
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