The Glory~Herman Wouk~1994~First Edition~Second Printing~Fine Condition~Free Shipping

The Glory~Herman Wouk~1994~First Edition~Second Printing~Fine Condition~Free Shipping.

This book is in near perfect condition. No markings or inscriptions. Great dust jacket. Would make a great collectible gift book.


Herman Wouk (/woʊk/ WOHK; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951) which won the Pulitzer Prize.

The Washington Post called Wouk, who cherished his privacy, “the reclusive dean of American historical novelists”. Historians, novelists, publishers, and critics who gathered at the Library of Congress in 1995 to mark Wouk’s 80th birthday described him as an American Tolstoy.

“I wrote nothing that was of the slightest consequence before I met Sarah,” Wouk recalled after her death. “I was a gag man for Fred Allen for five years. In his time, he was the greatest of the radio comedians. And jokes work for what they are but they’re ephemeral. They just disappear. And that was the kind of thing I did up until the time that I met Sarah and we married. And I would say my literary career and my mature life both began with her.”

The Glory - Interweaving the lives and fates of fictional characters and real-life notables, the sequel to The Hope continues the story of Israeli history to the climactic events of the Yom Kippur War and the promise of peace.

Historical events in the book include:

The sinking of the Israeli ship Eilat by Soviet rockets fired by the Egyptian Navy.
The War of Attrition.
The Yom Kippur War.
Operation Entebbe.
The visit of Anwar Sadat to Israel.
Families whose history is chronicled in The Glory:

Barak-Berkowe-Berkowitz
Nitzan-Bloom-Blumenthal
Luria
Pasternak
Real historical personages in the novel include Yonatan Netanyahu, Golda Meir, Ariel Sharon, Anwar Sadat, Moshe Dayan, and David Elazar. - From Wikipedia

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