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The Glory
by Herman Wouk
Book 2 in the Hope and Glory series.
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Beginning in the aftermath of the Six-Day War, The Glory resumes the lives of Zev Barak, Sam Pasternak, Benny Luria, Don Kishote and their families as Israel’s military victory gives way to new strategic and political dangers. The older generation moves between command, intelligence and diplomacy while their children inherit the risks of national service and the unresolved consequences of the conflict.
The story passes through the Yom Kippur War, the Entebbe rescue, the strike on Iraq’s Osirak reactor and the Camp David peace process. Public leaders including Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, Ariel Sharon and Menachem Begin appear beside the fictional families. Wouk contrasts battlefield decisions and international negotiation with bereavement, marriage and generational disagreement, carrying the sequence towards Israel’s fortieth anniversary and an uncertain prospect of peace.
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