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Operation Thunderbolt : Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airpor
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- Publication Name
- Little Brown & Company
- ISBN
- 9780316245418
- Book Title
- Operation Thunderbolt : Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History
- Item Length
- 6.3in
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Military / Special Forces, Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Military / Aviation, Africa / East
- Item Width
- 9.5in
- Item Weight
- 25.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David. On June 27, 1976, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked by a group of Arab and German terrorists who demanded the release of 53 terrorists. The plane was forced to divert to Entebbe, in Uganda--ruled by the murderous despot Idi Amin, who had no interest in intervening. Days later, Israeli commandos disguised as Ugandan soldiers assaulted the airport terminal, killed all the terrorists, and rescued all the hostages but three who were killed in the crossfire. The assault force suffered just one fatality: its commander, Yoni Netanyahu (brother of Israel's current Prime Minister.) Three of the country's greatest leaders: Ehud Barak, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin planned and pulled off one of the most astonishing military operations in history.
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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316245410
ISBN-13
9780316245418
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211818801
Product Key Features
Book Title
Operation Thunderbolt : Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / Special Forces, Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Military / Aviation, Africa / East
Publication Year
2015
Genre
History
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.3in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
9.5in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ds119.7.D2977 2015
Reviews
"An excellent account of the planning and execution of a successful high-risk operation."-- Publishers Weekly, "Totally thrilling, totally poignant. Bringing the greatest special forces operation of modern times blazingly to life, David's book, full of new revelations, written with the excitement of an action movie, the authority of a historian, is great drama, superb storytelling--and yet tells us much about the Middle East today." -- Simon Sebag Montefiore , author of Jerusalem, "David paces the narrative effectively, cutting back and forth among Entebbe, Tel Aviv, and Israeli military establishments with occasional looks at events in other world capitals. With high tension and as many plot twists as any fictional thriller, this book is hard to put down." -- Kirkus, "This book is an enthralling, minute-by-minute retelling of the hijack and the dramatic resucue using new sources and material." Max Hastings, "author of Inferno"", "Totally thrilling, totally poignant. Bringing the greatest special forces operation of modern times blazingly to life, David's book, full of new revelations, written with the excitement of an action movie, the authority of a historian, is great drama, superb storytelling--and yet tells us much about the Middle East today."-- Simon Sebag Montefiore , author of Jerusalem, "Totally thrilling, totally poignant. Bringing the greatest special forces operation of modern times blazingly to life, David's book, full of new revelations, written with the excitement of an action movie, the authority of a historian, is great drama, superb storytelling--and yet tells us much about the Middle East today." "Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of "Jerusalem " "", "This book is an enthralling, minute-by-minute retelling of the hijack and the dramatic rescue using new sources and material." -- Max Hastings , author of Inferno, "A brilliant, breathless account that reads like the plot of an action movie, switching between events in parts of the world as the drama unfolds... David's book is a good reminder that our own War on Terror has deep roots."-- The Sunday Telegraph, "In Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe , acclaimed military historian Saul David provides readers with a definitive account of what he calls one of the greatest Special Forces mission ever. The Entebbe story presented on the pages of this book reads almost like a thriller. Tension builds minute by minute with a narrative told from many angles - the hostages, the soldiers, the politicians, and even the terrorists themselves."-- Ellis Shuman , The Times of Israel, This gripping tale has already been told in numerous books, feature films and documentaries...But David's version, which cuts back and forth between the key players and reads like a film script, should prove definitive." -- The Boston Globe, "David, who has authored a number of books on wars in the 19th and 20th centuries, brings his excellent skill as a professor of war studies at the University of Buckingham to this story.... Operation Thunderbolt is written in an informed and colorful fast-paced way." -- Jerusalem Post, "What will most likely be the definitive work on the subject.... This is the achievement of a masterly, first-rate historian." -- Alan Furst , New York Times Book Review, "Thrilling....Dozens of books and movies have tried to capture the menace and the romance of the operation....In Operation Thunderbolt, British historian Saul David relies on extensive interviews with the captors, kidnapped and rescuers to retell the story in a tick-tock trek from Tel Aviv bunkers to the airport in Entebbe. The effect is heart-racing." -- Jordan Handler Hirsch , Wall Street Journal, "An excellent account of the planning and execution of a successful high-risk operation." -- Publishers Weekly, "David, author of numerous military histories such as Churchill's Sacrifice of the Highland Division , provides a minute-by-minute account of the entire event, focusing on the political maneuvering and the purely military operation, in excruciating detail...A definitive history of the Entebbe operation, likely to be popular among readers of military and terrorism works."-- Library Journal, "In 1976, Palestinian Arabs from a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and German far leftists from the Revolutionare Zellen hijacked an Air France Airbus with nearly 250 passengers on a flight from Athens to Paris... At the time this remarkable ation enthralled people the world over and the military historian, Saul David, now tells the story once more in a well-researched and highly readable account." -- Times Literary Supplement, "For the first time in my reading life I felt physically thrilled by a book... Wonderful."-- Literary Review, "It's a brilliantly orchestrated book, wonderfully rich in detail, but at the same time roaring along at a heart-thumping pace... I embarked on this book as someone not particularly interested in the Middle East, or in adventure tales of soldiers in action; I finished it in a state of high tension, buzzing through the pages in the need to know what happened next."-- Mail On Sunday, "David paces the narrative effectively, cutting back and forth among Entebbe, Tel Aviv, and Israeli military establishments with occasional looks at events in other world capitals. With high tension and as many plot twists as any fictional thriller, this book is hard to put down."-- Kirkus, "Totally thrilling, totally poignant. Bringing the greatest special forces operation of modern times blazingly to life, David's book, full of new revelations, written with the excitement of an action movie, the authority of a historian, is great drama, superb storytelling--and yet tells us much about the Middle East today."-- Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem, "He brings thrilling detail to one of the most dramatic rescue missions in recent history--and highlights the key roles played by Israeli leaders Ehud Barak, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin."-- Jane Ciabattari , BCC.com, "Saul David has nimbly woven a breathless romp across Europe, the Middle East and Africa...a suspenseful read. 3.5 stars out of 4." -- USA Today, "[The story] has been told many times on page and screen. But never better than British historian Saul David does in this meticulously researched, vivid account. He has a knack for making the reader feel he is right there." -- Martin Rubin , Washington Times, "He brings thrilling detail to one of the most dramatic rescue missions in recent history--and highlights the key roles played by Israeli leaders Ehud Barak, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin." -- Jane Ciabattari , BBC.com
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2015-946917
Dewey Decimal
967.6104/2
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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