My Glorious Brothers - Softcover

Fast, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743480031 ISBN 13: 9780743480031

Publisher: UNKNO, 2003

Synopsis

They were farmers-until the tumultuous events of history caught up with them. Simon, the eldest of five brothers, tells how Judah molded the people of Judea into an army capable of defeating the mighty Greek Battalions. For three decades, the Maccabees carried on the struggle, which, in terms of resistance and liberation, has almost no parallel in human history. It was the first modern fight for freedom, the first victory for religious freedom, and it laid a pattern for many movements that followed. My Glorious Brothers, by the master novelist and historian, Howard Fast (Spartacus, Freedom Road, April Morning), is a powerful recreation of the epic events, still celebratted by Jews the world over as the holiday of Hanukkah. Now a new generation of readrs, both teenagers and adults, can thrill to the drama of this contemporary classic.

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About the Author

Born in 1914, Howard Fast published over 53 novels, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. His writing has been praised by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Time magazine. His most famous novels included Spartacus, Freedom Road, My Glorious Brothers, and The Immigrants series.

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A little more than a century and a half before the birth of Christ, a handful of Jewish farmers in Palestine rose against the Syrian-Greek conquerors who had occupied their land.

For three decades, they carried on a struggle which, in terms of resistance and liberation, has almost no parallel in human history. In a sense, it was the first modern struggle for freedom, and it laid a pattern for many movements that followed.

This tale, which is still celebrated by Jews all over the world as Chanaka, or the Feast of the Lights, I have tried to retell here, considering that in these troubled and bitter times there is both a need for and a value in recalling the ancient consistency of mankind.

Whatever is good in the telling, I owe to the people who march through these pages, those wonderful people of old who, out of their religion, their way of life, and their love for their land, forged that splendid maxim―that resistance to tyranny is the truest obedience to God.

Edition details

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743480031
• ISBN 13: 9780743480031
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288