NONFICTION BOOKS: "The Arab-Israeli Wars" by: Chaim Herzog & Shlomo Gazit

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BOOK TITLE: "The Arab-Israeli Wars"
FULL TITLE: "The Arab-Israeli Wars - War And Peace In The Middle East"
AUTHOR: Chaim Herzog & Shlomo Gazit
TYPE: Nonfiction
LANGUAGE: English
TRANSLATOR: nil
ILLUSTRATOR: nil
PUBLISHER: Vintage; Reprint edition (July 12, 2005)
PUBLICATION DATE: 2005
BINDING: Softback
ISBN: 1400-079-632

SYNOPSIS:
- Now in its third edition, this classic study has been updated for the first time in more than twenty years. Chaim Herzog, former President of Israel, was involved in every conflict involving Israel and its Arab neighbors from before the 1948 War of Independence. The Arab-Israeli Wars is Herzog’s acclaimed history of Israel’s fight since 1947 to preserve her existence against repeated attacks. Revised after his death by friend and colleague General Shomo Gazit, this new edition also covers the events of the past twenty years, including the pullout from Lebanon, both intifadas, the first Gulf War, the Oslo Process, and beyond. Riveting, informative, and comprehensive, this authoritative account tells the story of Israel’s struggle to survive but gives a clear picture of the people and politics that continue to shape the destiny of this crucial region.

HISTORICAL FICTION: "The Glory" by: Herman Wouk

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BOOK TITLE: "The Glory"
FULL TITLE: "The Glory: A Novel"
AUTHOR: Herman Wouk
TYPE: Historical Fiction
LANGUAGE: English
TRANSLATOR: nil
ILLUSTRATOR: nil
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company
PUBLICATION DATE: 1994 original (1995 mass market paperback edition)
BINDING: Paperback
ISBN: 0316-955-280

SYNOPSIS
- This is the sequel to The Hope (1993), which dramatized the unlikely course of modern Israel's history, ending with its smashing victory over the Arabs in 1967. As in previous sagas of Woukian dimensions, The Winds of War to name one of a dozen, ordinary people become heroic figures against a turbulent backdrop of war, death, and love. As emotional encapsulations of this century's ghastly and glorious Jewish experience, Wouk's epics have been automatically popular, regardless of their schmaltzy, made-for-TV texture. Here he places a dozen military characters and their families in crucial roles in the post-'67 fighting: the Barak family has a military attache in the Washington embassy and a son on a gunboat; the Luries fly fighters; and the Pasternaks lurk in the Mossad's shadows. From such vantage points, they fight along and over the Suez Canal and fend off disaster in the Yom Kippur War, pull off the exhilarating Entebbe rescue, and bomb Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981, an endpoint that leaves out the less triumphant '80s. Wouk humanizes these intense events with scenes of passage (affairs, weddings, funerals) and mixes in real Israeli leaders such as Golda Meir, Dayan, Sharon, and Rabin, who consult with his characters. While action-minded readers await a possible televised adaptation, this spacious panorama of battle should sustain their interest.
By: Gilbert Taylor.

NONFICTION BOOKS: "Arab-Israeli Air Wars 1947-1982" by: Shlomo Aloni

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BOOK TITLE: "Arab-Israeli Air Wars 1947-1982"
FULL TITLE: "Arab-Israeli Air Wars 1947-1982 "
AUTHOR: Shlomo Aloni
TYPE: Nonfiction
LANGUAGE: English
TRANSLATOR: nil
ILLUSTRATOR: Mark Rolfe
PUBLISHER: Osprey Publishing
PUBLICATION DATE: 2001
BINDING: Paperback
ISBN: 1841-762-946

SYNOPSIS:
- When the UN called for the end of the British mandate and the partition of Palestine into two independent states, the RAF found itself under attack from both sides. Tracing the development of hostilities in the Middle East, this book covers the period from the establishment of the first proper Israeli Air Force in 1948 to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Israel's War of Independence against its Arab neighbours, the inevitable 'round two', the Suez Crisis of 1956, the Six Day War of 1967, the Yom Kippur wars of 1973 and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 are all detailed in this fascinating chronicle of war in the Middle East.

NONFICTION BOOKS: "A Warrior's Way" by: Avigdor Kahalani

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BOOK TITLE: "A Warrior's Way"
FULL TITLE: "A Warrior's Way - Israel's Most Decorated Tank Commander Relives His Greatest Battles"
AUTHOR: Avigdor Kahalani
TYPE: Nonfiction
LANGUAGE: English
TRANSLATOR: nil
ILLUSTRATOR: nil
PUBLISHER: S.P.I. Books
PUBLICATION DATE: 1993
BINDING: Softcover
ISBN: 1561-712-396

SYNOPSIS:
- In 1967 Avigdor Kahalani was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for leading the relentless charge at the head of the first Armored Corps tank company which broke through Egyptian lines and advanced along the northern Sinai axis during the Six Day War. Following the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Kahalani was awarded the Medal of Valor, Israel's higest military citation for his courageous stand during the first critical days of the war at the head of a tiny force that engaged and fought to a standstill an overwhelming number of Syrian forces in fierce and bloody clashes on the Golan Heights. In this book written in 1989, Kahalani recounts the story of his years in uniform, during which he confronts difficulties, faces physical and mental challenges and overcomes obstacles.

Avigdor Kahalani was born in 1944 and is Leader of The Third Way Movement. In 1966 he was appointed Minister of Public Security in Israel's government.

MODELLING: "Israeli Military Vehicles" by: John Myszka

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BOOK TITLE: "Israeli Military Vehicles"
FULL TITLE: "Israeli Military Vehicles - The First 50 Years 1948-1998"
AUTHOR: John Myszka
TYPE: Modelling Guide
LANGUAGE: English
TRANSLATOR: nil
ILLUSTRATOR: nil
PUBLISHER: Mouse House Enterprises
PUBLICATION DATE: 1998
BINDING: Softcover
ISBN: 0646-360-027

SYNOPSIS:
- 232 pages, A4 soft cover, over 220 photos, forty 1/76 scale plans.

NONFICTION BOOKS: "Fighters Over Israel" by: Lon Nordeen

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BOOK TITLE: "Fighters Over Israel"
AUTHOR: Lon O. Nordeen
TYPE: Nonfiction
LANGUAGE: English
TRANSLATOR: nil
ILLUSTRATOR: Ken Kotik
PUBLISHER: Greenhill Books, London, United Kingdom
PUBLICATION DATE: 1991
BINDING: Hardcover
ISBN: 1953-670-987

SYNOPSIS:
- The story of the Israeli Air Force from The War of Independence to the Bekaa Valley.