Spies of no country : secret lives at the birth of Israel
(2019)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
327.125694/FRIEDMAN,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xvii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781616207229, 1616207221 :, 1616207221, 9781616207229
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Haifa -- The scout -- At camp -- The garage -- The watcher -- Tiger -- Isaac -- Operation Starling -- Cedar -- The watcher -- Beirut. Kim -- Exceptional opportunities -- The fall of Israel -- The Three Moons kiosk -- Casino Méditerranée -- Hitler's yacht -- The saboteur -- The gallows -- The Jewish state -- Georgette -- The redhead -- Home
"The story of a ragtag unit known as the Arab Section, which was conceived in Palestine during World War II by British spies and Jewish militia leaders, and which eventually became the nucleus of the Mossad, Israel's vaunted intelligence agency"--