Chaim Herzog: 2 books
by Chaim Herzog
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
In this at times startlingly candid memoir, Chaim Herzog reviews an extraordinary life. Born in Belfast in 1918 to a Latvian mother and a Polish father who was chief rabbi of Ireland, Chaim Herzog moved with his family to Palestine in 1935 and at 16 joined the Haganah, the underground resistance led...
The War of Atonement
The Inside Story of the Yom Kippur War
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
This is the authoritative account of the Israeli army’s performance in the bitter Yom Kippur War of 1973. The origins of the war amid the turbulent history of competing powers in the Middle East are fully explored, as is the build-up of Arab forces that almost inexplicably caught Israel by surprise....