Yoni Netanyahu: Commando at Entebbe [VINTAGE 1995] [SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
Language: English
Published by The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1995
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
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Condition: Used - Fine
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Fine unread condition glossy brown linen boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition photographic dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments; List of Maps and Illustrations; Epilogue; Important Dates; Glossary of Hebrew Terms and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and black-and-white map drawings. Signed, inscribed, and dated (2/8/96) by the author, Devra Newberger Speregen, with blue pen on the full title page. The lower right corner of the same page contains a neatly scripted gift inscription. Also includes a tipped-into-the-volume handwritten note by the same gifter of the book, dated 2/9/96, re: "I had the pleasure of meeting the author of this book at a luncheon this afternoon." (Yoni Netanyahu was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's older brother). "Few rescue missions have succeeded like "Operation Thunderbolt," the Israeli plan led by Yoni Netanyahu on July 4, 1976, to rescue 105 hijacked Jewish passengers held captive in Uganda's Entebbe Airport. With clock-like precision, Yoni and his men flew secretly from Israel, landed in darkness more than 2,500 miles and 9 hours away, and rescued all but five of the hostages, returning them safely to Israel. In this gripping biography, Devra Newberger Speregen introduces young readers to one of Israel's bravest soldiers, offering a dramatic portrait of the young man who came to embody Judaism's highest values through his commitment to Israel and the Jewish people. Beginning with his earliest years, Speregen describes Yoni's life as the son of Israeli parents who made thir home in Israel and in the United States, and she traces his development as a young boy who felt at ease in both worlds but who considered Israel his true home. Whether playing hide-and-seek with his two brothers, Iddo and Binyamin (Bibi), serving as a troop leader in the Israeli Scouts, or working as a camp counselor in the United States, Yoni displayed great intelligence and an innate talent for leadership, earning admission to Harvard University and distinguished himself as an officer in the Israeli Army. It was as a soldier fighting for Israel that Yoni felt most in his element. He fought in the Six Day War as well as in the Yom Kippur War and defended Israel's borders throughout his career, becoming the kind of commander fellow soldiers admired. When Arab terroritsts hijacked an Air France plane on the morning of July 3, 1976, and held the plane's Jewish passengers hostage in the Entebbe airport, Yoni led his men onto the runway to rescue them, showing the world that Israel would defend her citizens within her borders and across the world rather than give in to terrorism." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Yoni Netanyahu: Commando at Entebbe [VINTAGE 1995] [SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
- Author
- Speregen, Devra Newberger
- Publisher
- The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Dudden, Adrianne Onderdonk (jacket design); Goldstein, Ron (author photograph)
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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