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1) O Jerusalem
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English
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At the center of this massive and brilliant book is the most universal of man's cities: Jerusalem, the mystic heart of three great religions, condemned to pay for the passions it inspires by being, through forty centuries, the most bitterly disputed site in the world. Collins and Lapierre's story is the fruit of five years of intensive research and many thousands of interviews. It is the epic drama of 1948, in which the Arabs and the Jews, heirs to...
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Zion legacy volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
Description
The inhabitants of Jerusalem brace for the violence that will follow the departure of the British in 1948.
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Zion legacy volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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"The Old City has fallen. In the midst of the destruction. Moshe Sachar, the courageous Israeli leader, remains in a tunnel safely hidden deep below ground. There he guards one of the few remaining treasures of Jewish antiquity; ancient, sacred scrolls that tell of a long, heroic history. With the instructions of an elder rabbi, Moshe opens a scroll as he has an elder rabbi, Moshe opens a scroll as he has done before, and again he becomes immersed...
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Zion legacy volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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A novel set in Israel during the War for Independence follows a group of Jewish soldiers as they battle for control of Jerusalem, in the sequel to Jerusalem Vigil.
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Zion legacy volume 4
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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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.
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Zion chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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The British are in the final stages of their military evacuation from Palestine. While the Jewish Haganah trains its pilots in fighters, Moshe is still trying to supply the Old City of Jerusalem with food.
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Zion legacy volume 6
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
Description
"Strategist Moshe Sachar remains hidden in a secret tunnel beneath the Temple Mount, safely removed from the chaos of Israel's 1948 war of independence, while mourners at the funeral of an elder rabbi weep above him. Using the instructions the rabbi gave him before his death, Moshe opens another sacred scroll and is transported again to the dramatic biblical story of a charismatic but mysterious prophet, Yeshua."-- jacket.
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Zion legacy volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Mose Sachar races to reach his wife in Jerusalem during the 1948 war.
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English
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"It has been the home to priests and prostitutes, poets and spies. It has been the stage for an improbable flirtation between an Israeli girl and a Palestinian boy living on opposite sides of the barbed wire that separated enemy nations. It has even been the scene of an unsolved international murder. This one-time shepherd's path between Jerusalem and Bethlehem has been a dividing line for decades. Arab families called it "al Mantiqa Haram." Jewish...
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