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(0)Herman Wouk
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English
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Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with The Winds of War and continues in War and Remembrance, stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - the drama, the romance, the heroism and the tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very...
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English
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Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director has rejected her rabbinical father's strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a career in the arts. When an Australian multi-billionaire promises to finance a movie about Moses if the script meets certain standards, Margo does everything she can to land the job, including a reunion with her estranged first love, an influential lawyer with whom she still has unfinished business.
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1993]
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English
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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 fights 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 battles...
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1994]
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English
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This follow-up to The Hope plunges immediately into the violence and upheaval of the Six-Day War of 1967-and continues the stories of its multiple characters and of Israel's dramatic struggle for survival across the years. The Glory takes readers 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...
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Paramount
Pub. Date
2004, 1983.
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English
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Tells an epic story of military strategy, politics, romance, and family conflict set against the backdrop of world events from 1938 through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Follows naval officer Victor "Pug" Henry as he is sent to Berlin as the U.S. Naval attaché. Shows how "Pug" and his family are drawn into the center of the conflicts that lead to America's involvement in World War II as Germany expands and proceeds to seize several...
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Paramount
Pub. Date
2004, 1983.
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English
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"The storm breaks in Europe as the German-Soviet pact, one that Pug had warned American officials about, has come to pass, prompting U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to request that Pug be his eyes and ears in Germany. Among the millions affected by Hitler's lightning-fast sweep into Poland are Pug's son, Byron, and the woman Byron loves, Natalie Jastrow, the niece of Jewish-American author Aaron Jastrow and fiancée of American diplomat Leslie Slote"...
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Paramount
Pub. Date
2004, 1983.
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English
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"In Germany, a murderous scheme is underway as Hitler makes plans to invade Russia. As the war rages on, so do individual passions. Byron Henry, now a naval submarine officer, elopes with Natalie. Rhoda's relationship with A-bomb developer Fred 'Palmer' Kirby threatens her marriage to Pug, while Pug finds that he's increasingly drawn to Pamela, who openly adores him"--
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Paramount
Pub. Date
2004, 1983.
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English
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"Cataclysm: Chaos erupts in Europe as Warsaw falls and a defiant Adolf Hitler declares, 'The only road to peace is through German victory.' Pug Henry, in his role as unofficial observer for President Roosevelt, travels to Rome to meet Mussolini. The objective is to arrange a peace conference between Il Duce and U.S. delegate Sumner Welles, but Pug is alarmed by the Italian dictator's thirst for power, which belies his conciliatory gestures" --
"Defiance:...
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Paramount
Pub. Date
2004, 1983.
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English
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"Spring, 1939. The winds of war that will soon engulf the world are starting to stir. It's also a time of change for United States Navy Commander Victor 'Pug' Henry, who, accompanied by his wife Rhoda, arrives in Berlin to assume his new appointment as naval attaché to the U.S. Embassy. Pug is unaware that he and his family, scattered around the globe, from Poland to the Pacific, are about to experience the most harrowing and adventurous years of...
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Paramount
Pub. Date
2004, 1983.
Language
English
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"Pug Henry embarks on a perilous mission when President Roosevelt places him in command of 16 naval destroyers 'unofficially' escorting a shipment to war-torn England. Meanwhile, Natalie Jastrow Henry, who is pregnant and trapped in Italy with her uncle, is horrified to uncover evidence of Hitler's 'Final Solution' and fears, like so many others, that this solution may include her and her family"--
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Paramount
Pub. Date
2004, 1983.
Language
English
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"Unbeknownst to America, a 'day of infamy' is approaching. In Russia, Pug Henry smoothes over a diplomatic-military problem with Josef Stalin, then heads for Hawaii and his new command: the battleship U.S.S. California. Other members of the Henry family are also on the move. Byron is at sea. His wife, Natalie, sets sail for Palestine with her uncle. And Pug's second son, Warren, flies a mission out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The date is December 7,...