"Winner of a Jewish National Book Award for his previous book, Walking Israel, NBC Special Correspondent Martin Fletcher uses meticulous research and his own family's history in this stunning novel. Dramatizing explosive events in London and Palestine in the years directly following World War II, The List follows the lives of Edith and Georg, Austrian refugees who are expecting their first baby in a world unfriendly to Jews. Anti-Semitism sweeps across...

During the struggle to establish the new State of Israel, Moshe Sacher and his pregnant wife, Rachel, fight for the holy land. Early on the morning of May 19, 1948, the long siege of Jerusalem's Old City is lifted as patriot soldiers break through the Zion Gate. But the celebration is short-lived-a long battle ensues. Moshe Sachar, a professor and strategist for the Haganah group, must keep the movement's momentum alive in the face of a dissenting...

The Zion Chronicles series covers the events surrounding Israel's statehood in 1948. Each book vividly portrays the intense struggle of the Jewish people in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the forces, within and without, which engulf the Middle East in conflict and controversy even today. Will there ever be peace in Zion? The Jewish people wonder as they stream into the British Mandate of Palestine after the devastation of World War II. What has...

Moshe Sachar escapes the brutal fighting in Jerusalem in 1949 to a secret tunnel. There he finds an ancient scroll that tells the story of the troubled love between a Jewish widow and a Roman centurian

Moshe Sachar escapes the brutal fighting in Jerusalem in 1949 to a secret tunnel. There he finds an ancient scroll that tells the story of the troubled love between a Jewish widow and a Roman centurian