The gripping sequel to Pulitzer Prize-winner Herman Wouk's stunning
historical novel The Hope...
The Glory plunges immediately into the violence and upheaval of the
Six-Day War of 1967 - and continues the dramatic story of Israel's
struggle for survival. A sprawling, action-packed novel, Wouk takes
listeners through the terrors of the Yom Kippur War, the famous Entebbe
rescue, and the airstrikes on Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor - ending
with the final hope for peace. Illuminating the inner lives of real
Israeli leaders - including David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan,
and Ariel Sharon - with both insight and compassion, Wouk tells the
story of Israel's struggle to exist with an authoritative, gripping
style that demonstrates not only the broad significance of this time in
history, but also its personal impact on those who lived through it.
About the author: Herman Wouk is one of the most widely-read American
authors in the world. His books have been translated into 27 languages,
and many of his works have become best sellers. He is perhaps best known
for The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, an
exhaustively-researched two-part historical series telling the story of
World War II from the perspective of two fictional families whose lives
were irrevocably changed by the war and the Holocaust. Sixteen years in
the making, the epic involved extensive archival research including
travel for research to England, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Israel. The
Winds of War and War and Remembrance were adapted for television in a
30-hour series that won the 1989 Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries
and was, according to ABC, "the most watched television show in
history."
Born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents, Wouk graduated from
Columbia University and started out working as a comedy writer for Fred
Allen's radio show. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941,
he joined the Navy, serving in eight Pacific invasions and earning
several battle stars. During his service in the Pacific he had turned to
writing, like Lieutenant Keefer in The Caine Mutiny, for an hour or
two before dawn. After his discharge in 1946, Wouk finished his first
novel, which became a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and he soon
followed up with the international best sellers The Caine Mutiny, and
Marjorie Morningstar.
Wouk won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Caine Mutiny. He
has also been awarded numerous academic honors, including a degree from
the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In January 2001, UC San Diego
established the Herman Wouk Chair of Modern Jewish Studies, and in 2008
he was given the first Library of Congress Lifetime Achievement Award
for the Writing of Fiction.
