Zion

The Zion series is a series of novels written under multiple series’ by the authors Bodie and Brock Thoene. All the novels of the multiple series’ are based on the Christian Historical Fiction genre and are set in Jerusalem, Israel, showing the aftermath of the Second World War. The whole Zion series of novels are divided in 4 series’ namely, Zion Chronicles, Zion Covenant, Zion Legacy and Zion Diaries. The authors Bodies and Brock Thoene began writing the Zion novels firstly with the Zion Chronicles series. The first novel of this series, A Daughter of Zion was published in the year 1988. The series ended in the year 2006. The last series of the Zion books, the Zion Diaries began with the publication of its first novel in the year 2010 titled The Gathering Storm and ended in the year 2011. There is a total of 23 books written by the authors Bodie and Brock Thoene in the Zion series. 9 of these are written under the Zion Covenant series and 6 of them under the Zion Legacy series. The Zion Chronicles series consists of 5 novels and the remaining 3 novels are written under the Zion Diaries series. In all the series of the Zion series, the State of Israel is shown as a region of political importance after the Second World War an every other nation is trying to proclaim it. The British try to proclaim the State of Israel by handing over the keys to the Zion Gate and making the Muslim and Jewish troops to indulge into a battle for gaining prominence over the other. With the political wars going on outside of Jerusalem, the patriots of the country try to maintain the legacy of the Old City of Jerusalem by breaking in through the Zion Gate. One such patriot of Jerusalem is Moshe Sachar, who is a strategist and a professor in the Haganah group and is required to keep his movement active in order to preserve the patriotic city of Jerusalem from getting destroyed at the hands of the British army.