New York Times Bestseller: "A sprawling action-packed novel" of Israel by the author of The Hope ( The Philadelphia Inquirer).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 famou...

An epic of Israel from its founding to the Six-Day War by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author: "Full of excitement." — Entertainment WeeklyFrom 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

A writer finds wealth, fame, and sorrow in midcentury Manhattan in "a tremendous novel . . . full of wisdom and pain" by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author ( Los Angeles Times).Arthur Youngblood Hawke, an ex-Navy man, moves from hardscrabble rural Kentucky to New York, hoping to make his mark on the literary world. His first novel becomes an instant hit, and he is toasted by critics and swept along on a tide of celebrity.But as Hawke g...

The basis for the Herman Wouk–Jimmy Buffett musical: A middle-aged New Yorker buys a Caribbean hotel and learns that paradise has its drawbacks in this novel that "moves as fast as a Marx Brothers movie" ( The New York Times Book Review).Broadway press agent Norman Paperman is pushing fifty with one heart attack already under his belt. So he decides to chuck the stressful Manhattan life and bring his wife and teenage daughter to a lush green island. With th...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a perennial favorite of readers young and old, Herman Wouk's masterful World War II drama set aboard a U.S. Navy warship in the Pacific is "a novel of brilliant virtuosity" (Times Literary Supplement).Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life--and mutiny--on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of ...

A "truly enjoyable" journey through one man's Jewish American experience by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Marjorie Morningstar ( Newsday).Israel David Goodkind is a minor bureaucrat in the Nixon White House, killing time in the office by writing the story of four generations of his large, sprawling Russian Jewish immigrant family. As he recounts his brief stint in show business, his torrid affair with a showgirl, and his enco...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NOW A FEATURE FILM DIRECTED BY WILLIAM FRIEDKIN AND STARRING KIEFER SUTHERLAND, STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON PARAMOUNT+ WITH SHOWTIMETHE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL is Herman Wouk's own stage adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny. Upon its original publication, Wouk’s boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining drama of life—and mutiny—on a Navy warship was immediately embrac...

The #1 New York Times –bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of This is My God continues to share his thoughts on Jewish faith and survival.Winner of the Jewish Book Council's Literary Achievement AwardHerman Wouk has ranged in his novels from the mighty narrative of The Caine Mutiny and the warm, intimate humor of Marjorie Mornings...

“A sparkling memoir of a well-lived life of literature, fame, and love” (Booklist) by one of America’s most beloved authors, as he looks back over his 100 years.In this remarkable memoir “full of adventure, wit, color, and detail” (Jewish Journal), Herman Wouk finally reflects on the life experiences that inspired his most enduring novels. With a tone that is “generous and warm” (The Boston Globe), he tells of his days writing for comedia...

"A lighthearted and delightful tour de force" (The Washington Times).A romantic and suspenseful epistolary novel about a group of people trying to make a movie about Moses in the present day, The Lawgiver is a story that emerges from letters, memos, e-mails, journals, news articles, Skype transcripts, and text messages.At the center of The Lawgiver is Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director who has rejected her rabbinical...

Året er 1939, og Victor ’Pug’ Henry er netop blevet udnævnt til marineattaché ved den amerikanske ambassade i Berlin. Sammen med sin kone, Rhoda, kan han på nært hold iagttage udbruddet af krigen, som det former sig i den tyske hovedstad. Samtidig befinder parrets yngste søn, Byron Henry, sig i Italien. Her møder han Natalie, en ung jødisk kvinde, som han forelsker sig i. Han ledsager hende på en dumdristig tur til Polen, hvor de endnu befinder sig, da den tyske invasion begynder."...

An "enormously entertaining" portrait of "a Bronx Tom Sawyer" (San Francisco Chronicle), City Boy is a sharp and moving novel of boyhood from Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk.A hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures on the street, in school, in the countryside, always in pursuit of Lucille, a heartless redhead personifying all the girls who torment and fascinate pubescent lads of eleven.