Soul Survivor

Soul Survivor by Bruce and Andrea Leininger with Ken Gross

I picked up this paperback book at a book sale. I thought it sounded interesting and I saw it involved airplanes so I even thought Mike, who doesn't read many books might also like to read it. He did actually read it .

It is a true story of a young toddler who has terrible nightmares and when his parents take notice , they hear him say that a man is crashing in an airplane. It is the same nightmare each night and through the next few months they get to understand that the boy thinks he is the man in the airplane and not only that, he knows the name of the airplane and eventually comes up with the name of the man and where it has crashed. The man is called James 2 and he is James 3.

The parents are intrigued with the story and can't believe their little boy can possibly know some of the things he is saying and so the story begins with the conclusion that the boy is a reincarnation of a young fighter pilot that died in WW 11.

Whether you believe in this story or indeed in reincarnation, the story is gripping. The husband is fighting the belief of reincarnation which challenges his Christian belief system So is determined to prove there is another reason for this and starts to research the details the young boy utters. This brings him into meeting up with old WW11 pilots and researching in great details the pacific war theater, the name of the boat the Natoma Bay and the men who served on her. The research is painstaking and very detailed and so this book would be very interesting to people who study that field of interest as well.

If you get a chance, read it it will make you think.