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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...

Thunder from Jerusalem opens on May 19, 1948. The state of Israel is five days old, and--under attack from all points of the compass--its life hangs by a thread. After months of privation the siege of Jerusalem's Old City is lifted as patriot soldiers break through Zion Gate. But it is only the beginning of a long battle, as harrowing as it is glorious, for this ancient enclave. There unfolds a tale of heroism and tragedy, of romance, pathos, and...

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

Jerusalem's Hope is the final volume in the superb Zion Legacy series, continues the story-within-a-story of The Jerusalem Scrolls and Stones of Jerusalem . Israeli strategist Moshe Sachar has taken refuge in a secret tunnel, beneath the Temple Mount, from the battle chaos of the 1948 war of independence. Now, he opens another of the temple's ancient scrolls and plunges into the supreme drama of the first century A.D. As word spreads of the miracles...

Taking refuge in a secret tunnel beneath the Temple Mount during the Israel-Arab War, Israeli strategist Moshe Sachar immerses himself in an ancient scroll that reveals the story of a Roman centurion and the mysterious woman he loves.