Picking up in 1945's ashes, this majestic saga ushers us into the postwar hope, tragedy, and turbulence that reinvented the modern world order. As the Champions, Wagners and Sterns journey from the Holocaust's horrors to Israel's birth, through Hollywood's Golden Age, Vietnam turmoil and beyond, Hans Wagner quietly amasses an empire in America's corridors of power. But shadowy forces conspire to imperil everything he holds dear.

At the story's heart are identical twins Veda and Rose, whose paths diverge into legend after the war. While Veda's dynasty embodies the glittering pinnacle of American success, Rose's quiet courage leaves an indelible impact from Auschwitz to Israel's Six Day War. Though oceans apart, each sister's light has transformed innumerable lives. Despite the riches and fame fortune brings them, this indestructible bond remains unchanged.

Spanning the nostalgic charm of postwar suburbia to the encroaching millennium's anxious technologies, Gone But Not Betrayed fuses intimate personal dramas with the pivotal events reshaping global civilization. As new generations inherit unresolved darkness and light, every hard-won revelation immerses us deeply into the unbroken chain linking past to future.