<p><b><font>A <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller, <i>The Glory</i> is a "sprawling, action-packed novel" of Israel by the author of <i>The Hope</i> (<i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i>).</font></b><br><br>This follow-up to <i>The Hope</i> 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. <i>The Glory</i> 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.<br><br>Shifting between Jerusalem and Washington, Los Angeles and Paris, this is the story of a beleaguered country and the men and women who fought for Israeli Independence and triumphed in the Six-Day War but know their fragile nationhood still hangs by a thread as their own children go into battle. <br><br>Illuminating the inner lives of real Israeli leaders-