Am halfway through the second of the two books Wouk wrote about the beginnings of Israel after the end of WW2. The Hope is the first and The Glory is the second. Have to hand it to Work...he was a great storyteller. Doesn't mean he was a great writer per se..and that is just my opinion. But he damn sure could tell a story. The Israel books are almost as good as his WW2 books...The Winds of War followed by War and Remembrance. Those two are in the same class as Shaw's The Young Lions and James Jones From Here to Eternity... The Thin Red Line and Whistle. That last one is one of the saddest..yet funny..I have ever read about the war. Damn! All this literary talk reminds me I need to be setting my rear end down with pen and paper and doing some Work!