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Author : Murray Rubenstein,Richard Martin Goldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0853684626
Author : Eliezer Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:312295463
Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0426062930
Author : Lon O. Nordeen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1285576011
Author : Eliezer Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
ISBN : 1853104841
En beskrivelse af IAF's betydning for Israel i de mange konflikter med de arabiske nabolande.
Author : Ehud Yonay
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029864017
The Israeli-born, award-winning investigative reporter, whose story about U.S. Navy fighters was made into the movie Top Gun, presents an important military history, with all the excitement of a high-tech adventure, focusing on a heroic group of youngsters as they are molded into the highly-skilled pilots of one of the world's most sophisticated air forces. Photos.
Author : Zan Swartzberg
Publisher : Neilsen
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995519536
From South Africa to Israel and war in 1947. 800 young South African Jewish men and women answered the call to help the fledgeling State of Israel in its fight for Independence. As a radio operator the author was part of the team that formed the start of the Israeli Air Force."The Hammers" is my adventure from recruitment to demob.
Author : Jeffrey Weiss,Craig Weiss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781637583128
Fighting Back is the story of Stan Andrews, an assimilated American Jew and World War II veteran who became one of the first fighter pilots in the history of the Israeli Air Force. “Jeffrey and Craig Weiss have uncovered the story of a Jewish hero in the mold of a Leon Uris character. Readers will enjoy trying to keep up with Stan Andrews—a typical Jewish New Yorker turned daring combat pilot—as he chases history from the air force planes of the United States and the nascent state of Israel.” –Dan Senor, New York Times bestselling co-author of Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle. “Absorbing and beautifully written, Fighting Back tells the thrilling story of an unlikely American Jewish hero. At a time when some American Jews are distancing themselves from the Jewish state, this book is a powerful reminder of the deep roots connecting American Jewry and Israel.” –Yossi Klein Halevi, senior fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute, author, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor In 1948, Stan Andrews left a comfortable postwar life in Los Angeles to travel to the war-torn Middle East, where a four-front Arab invasion threatened to destroy the newly-declared State of Israel. There he joined the Israeli Air Force and became one of its first fighter pilots. Andrews was an unexpected volunteer for the fight for a Jewish state. He was many things—an artist, writer, assimilated Jew, ladies’ man, pilot, and combat veteran of the Pacific War. He had previously been aloof from the struggle for Jewish independence but found himself so roused by the anti-Semitism of 1940s America that he decided to go to Israel and risk everything. Stan made the most of his time in Israel, serving in fighter and bomber squadrons and leaving his mark on an Israeli Air Force that has since become the stuff of legend.
Author : Robert Gandt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393254785
“Reads like a World War II thriller, only better because every word is true.… One of the great untold stories of history. Robert Gandt has brought it vividly, unforgettably to life.” —Steven Pressfield, best-selling author of Gates of Fire In 1948, when the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from a coalition of Arab states, a band of volunteer airmen from the United States, Canada, Britain, France, and South Africa arrived to help. They were a small group, fewer than 150. Many were World War II veterans; most of them knowingly violated their nations’ embargoes on the shipment of arms and aircraft to Israel. The airmen risked everything—their careers, citizenship, and lives—to fight for Israel. The saga of the volunteer airmen in Israel’s war of independence stands as one of the most stirring—and little-known—war stories of the past century.
Author : Eliezer Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517137895
Author : Amos Amir
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783033751
The story of a Middle Eastern pilot’s life—from his childhood in Tel Aviv during WWII to his early career in the Israeli Air Force to the Lebanon War. General Amos Amir’s autobiography tells the story of the man, the warrior and the commander and the story of the struggling, newly-born, Israeli Air Force. From the Six Day War of 1967 and onward, the IAF turned to be an extremely important component of the overall Israeli defense power. The years from the Sinai War in 1956, through the Six-Day-War, the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the Lebanon War in 1982, were the years of Amir's flying, fighting and commanding career. Amir tells his own story in talented, vivid and fluent language. He succeeds in pulling the reader into his narrow cockpit from the early stages of his flying school to later air combats and reconnaissance missions. Tense dogfights, long-range reconnaissance missions and memorable aerial episodes, including piloting a Phantom jet from the deck of the American carrier Kitty Hawk, are vividly described. The book reveals previously untold stories about the traumatic Yom Kippur War of 1973 and the early stages of the war in Lebanon in the 1982.
Author : Iftach Spector
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781616732509
A recently retired Israeli Air Force general and its second-highest-scoring fighter ace, Iftach Spector is one of Israel’s living legends. He was the leader of the flight that attacked the USS Liberty in 1967. After the 1967 and 1973 wars, in which he commanded a squadron of fighter-bombers, he rose to head the IAF’s Training and War Lessons Section and later became its the Chief of Operations. He was one of the eight Israeli pilots who attacked Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor at Osirik in 1981. In 2003, his career took an even more dramatic turn: he was the senior signatory of the famous “Pilots’ Letter,” in which Spector and 27 other Israeli pilots stated their refusal to bomb targets in Palestine where collateral damage would likely be severe. His maverick conscience is well on display in this artfully written memoir, which is currently a 10-week-and-counting bestseller in Israel and has been licensed in Brazil as well. The son of a family that immigrated to Palestine at the turn of the 20th century, whose father and mother served in the Palmach, Israel’s early clandestine commando force, Spector has written a rich and reflective meditation on loyalty, on what is right and wrong in war, and on his dedication to the idea and reality of the state of Israel. The Pilots’ Letter ended Spector’s military career, but also made him one of the most compelling and celebrated defenders of the conscience of the Jewish state. In that battle, as in his previous battles against Nasser’s MiGs, his mother’s constant lesson to him sustained him: “All from within.” General Spector’s first book, A DREAM IN BLACK AND AZURE (1992; never translated into English), won the Sade Literary Award, given to him personally by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He has a B.A. in history and Middle East Studies from Tel Aviv University and a masters in political science from UCLA, both with honors.
Author : Ezer Weizman
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Air defenses
ISBN : 0297770349
Author : Patrick Tyler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781429944472
"Once in the military system, Israelis never fully exit," writes the prizewinning journalist Patrick Tyler in the prologue to Fortress Israel. "They carry the military identity for life, not just through service in the reserves until age forty-nine . . . but through lifelong expectations of loyalty and secrecy." The military is the country to a great extent, and peace will only come, Tyler argues, when Israel's military elite adopt it as the national strategy. Fortress Israel is an epic portrayal of Israel's martial culture—of Sparta presenting itself as Athens. From Israel's founding in 1948, we see a leadership class engaged in an intense ideological struggle over whether to become the "light unto nations," as envisioned by the early Zionists, or to embrace an ideology of state militarism with the objective of expanding borders and exploiting the weaknesses of the Arabs. In his first decade as prime minister, David Ben-Gurion conceived of a militarized society, dominated by a powerful defense establishment and capable of defeating the Arabs in serial warfare over many decades. Bound by self-reliance and a stern resolve never to forget the Holocaust, Israel's military elite has prevailed in war but has also at times overpowered Israel's democracy. Tyler takes us inside the military culture of Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, and Benjamin Netanyahu, introducing us to generals who make decisions that trump those of elected leaders and who disdain diplomacy as appeasement or surrender. Fortress Israel shows us how this martial culture envelops every family. Israeli youth go through three years of compulsory military service after high school, and acceptance into elite commando units or air force squadrons brings lasting prestige and a network for life. So ingrained is the martial outlook and identity, Tyler argues, that Israelis are missing opportunities to make peace even when it is possible to do so. "The Zionist movement had survived the onslaught of world wars, the Holocaust, and clashes of ideology," writes Tyler, "but in the modern era of statehood, Israel seemed incapable of fielding a generation of leaders who could adapt to the times, who were dedicated to ending . . . [Israel's] isolation, or to changing the paradigm of military preeminence." Based on a vast array of sources, declassified documents, personal archives, and interviews across the spectrum of Israel's ruling class, Fortress Israel is a remarkable story of character, rivalry, conflict, and the competing impulses for war and for peace in the Middle East.
Author : Murray Rubenstein,Richard Martin Goldman
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037293615
Beretter om det israelske flyvevåbens historiske udvikling samt dets indsats under forskellige krige og konflikter.