Assault on the Liberty: The True Story of the Israeli Attack on an American Intelligence Ship. This item is unavailable.Assault on the Liberty: The True Story of the Israeli Attack on an American Intelligence Ship

Reintree Press, Bloomington, IN. 2004. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated 2nd Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 319 pp 8vo. In June, 1967, jet aircraft and motor torpedo boats of Israel brutally assaulted an American naval vessel, the USS Liberty, in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea. Thirty-four men died and 172 were wounded. The author was an officer on the bridge when the attack started and subsequently spent many years researching and documenting this meticulous account of the attack and the cover-up that followed. A clean very presentable copy.