The living wood

By Louis de Wohl

Book Overview

Set against the colorful background of power struggles in imperial Rome and battling Roman legions, this is the exciting story of St. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, who found the Cross of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007KF2PQ
• Release Date: January 1947
• Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Entertaining and Historically Accurate

Great way to learn about history as well as about The Church's saints. I also enjoyed De Wohl's City of God, The Spear and The Restless Flame. I can't wait to read his others. I would reccomend for homeschooling history, although there are a few scenes that I would not read to my children. They are not graphic but innappropriate for younger children. An overall exciting and historically accurate book.

I haven't read this in years, but I've read it a dozen times or so

I was probably about 8 when I first read this (I was reading adult books by this age), but I read it over and over again thru my 20s. I don't know how factual the background story was in this work of historical fiction, but the characters jumped out of the page at me and I seemed to get something new out of it every time I read it. The fictional part of the story was about a Roman soldier who was somehow involved in the crucifixion, and how it affected his life. Even though I've never been particulary religious, I found it a very moving tale. I lost it somewhere along the way, and from time to time I wish I could get a copy and see if it affects me as strongly as it did then.