My Glorious Brothers

My Glorious Brothers

by Howard Fast
My Glorious Brothers

My Glorious Brothers

by Howard Fast

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Overview

"Fast is at his best as a storyteller"— Christian Science Monitor


The strength of five brothers will define a nation.


My Glorious Brothers is the epic story of perhaps the most breathtaking chapter in the history of Israel, a stirring tale of courage for those who like to find meaning for today's world in the great events of history.


After witnessing a ransacked and desecrated Jerusalem, Simon and his four brothers — soon to be known and revered as the Maccabees — rise to lead an earthshaking rebellion. Their tale has almost no parallel in human history. Theirs was the will, fire, and unbending spirit that inspired the timeless rite of Hanukkah, transforming a society of farmers and scholars into an unconquerable army that would wage the first modern fight for freedom and the first victory for religious freedom.


Master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the story of great battles, brutal atrocities, and undying love and loyalty. But it is also a sensitive and sure picture of a people and an age, in which the mood of a small but spirited segment of humanity two thousand years ago is recreated with gripping authenticity.


PRAISE FOR HOWARD FAST:


"Emotional, exciting, and entertaining."— Philadelphia Inquirer


"Relentless pace of events...real experience leaping full-bodied from Fast's imagination!"— New York Times


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781402271939
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Publication date: 11/01/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 621,273
File size: 941 KB

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.


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.

Read an Excerpt

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.

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