by Herman Wouk · Plon · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782259003568
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«Israël» is the historical novel by Herman Wouk published by Plon in 1994, in paperback (644 pages, in French).
Four Israeli officers (Zev Barak, Benny Luria, Sam Pasternak and Kishote) are the protagonists of this novel, which spans from the 1948 War of Independence to the 1967 Six-Day War. Wouk combines battles, comic episodes and love stories, and portrays heroism and human fragility in the face of adversity.
First instalment of the series The Hope and the Glory; the original title is The Hope, first published in 1993.
For readers of historical fiction and war fiction, especially those interested in the history of Israel and its wars.
Herman Wouk was an American author. He published 15 novels, many of them historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952. Other well-known works included The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, the bildungsroman Marjorie Morningstar; and non-fiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish readers. His books have been translated into 27 languages.
