The Hope - Couverture souple

Wouk, Herman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0316954411 ISBN 13 : 9780316954419

Editeur : Back Bay Books, 2002

Synopsis

An epic of Israel from its founding to the Six-Day War by the #1 New York Times bestselling author: 

"Full of excitement." —Entertainment Weekly

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Winds of War and The Caine Mutiny, this saga spans from 1948 to 1967, the early decades of the state of Israel as it struggles for its life, outmatched and surrounded by enemies—the first of the two-part epic that concludes with The Glory.
 
Zev Barak, Sam Pasternak, Don Kishote, and Benny Luria are all officers in the Israeli army caught up in the sweep of history, fighting the desperate desert skirmishes and meeting the larger-than-life personalities that shaped Israel's fight for independence. The four heroes and the women they love weave a compelling tapestry of individual destinies through a grand recounting of one nation's battle against the odds.

"Much of the dialogue is witty; the descriptions of back-channel diplomacy between the United States and Israel are fascinating and convincing." —The New York Times Book Review

"Solid historical research ... fictional characters of Wouk's own invention rub shoulders with real-life historical figures like David Ben Gurion [and] Moshe Dayan." —The Christian Science Monitor

"Rich and satisfying ... deftly portrays the human face of inhuman conflict." —The Plain Dealer

"An engrossing and often moving tale." —Publishers Weekly

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Hope is the new State of Israel, and its servants include Zev Barak, a young army officer who rises to become military attaché in Washington; Sam Pasternak, arms procurer and master of shuttle diplomacy who heads up military intelligence; Benny Luria, fighter pilot whose finest hour comes over Sinai; Yael, the girl soldier with a penchant for powerful men; Nakhama, the beautiful Moroccan immigrant wife and mother; Kishote, the man with a charmed life who leads an armoured brigade through the desert; and, in America, there is the remarkable Virginia headmistress Emily, whose father is in the CIA.

The towering story of modern Israel from Independence to the triumph of the Six-Day War is told through the bittersweet agonies of these people, who between them help create the Hope.

Biographie de l'auteur

Herman Wouk is the author of The Caine Mutiny, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, and Inside, Outside. His latest novel is The Lawgiver, a romantic comedy about the seeming impossibility of making a movie about the life of Moses. Born in the Bronx in 1915, he has lived in Manhattan, the Virgin Islands, and Washington, DC. He now resides in Palm Springs, California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Back Bay Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0316954411
• ISBN 13: 9780316954419
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 705
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible