Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars [NOOK Book]

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In a prologue, 25 action-packed chapters, and detailed endnotes, SPIES AGAINST ARMAGEDDON: INSIDE ISRAEL'S SECRET WARS covers more ground than any other book about modern-day Israel. It is filled with colorful characters, who risk their lives and reputations in the secret service of their nation. R. James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence, writes: “Raviv and Melman have redefined the gold standard for nonfiction about intelligence. This remarkable history of Israeli intelligence from the War of ...
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In a prologue, 25 action-packed chapters, and detailed endnotes, SPIES AGAINST ARMAGEDDON: INSIDE ISRAEL'S SECRET WARS covers more ground than any other book about modern-day Israel. It is filled with colorful characters, who risk their lives and reputations in the secret service of their nation. R. James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence, writes: “Raviv and Melman have redefined the gold standard for nonfiction about intelligence. This remarkable history of Israeli intelligence from the War of Independence to Stuxnet calls it straight. By describing the roots of both the triumphs and the screw-ups thoroughly and fairly the authors help us see not only how Israel's survival has been effectively protected but the huge debt the rest of us owe.” The award-winning historian Douglas Brinkley, author of CRONKITE, writes: “The revelatory research amassed in SPIES AGAINST ARMAGEDDON is nothing short of stunning. Raviv and Melman understand the inner workings of Israel’s Mossad better than most Mossad agents. Highly recommended!” James Roche, a former Secretary of the Air Force, writes: "Fascinating vignettes ... a detailed exposition of the activities of serious, professional, and generally successful Israeli operatives who are dedicated totally to the defense of Israel and the Jewish people."
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Barbara Slavin
An update of previous works by the authors, this very readable account depicts Israeli intelligence triumphs and fiascoes.
Many of the successes are well known: obtaining a copy of Nikita Khrushchev’s secret speech denouncing Stalin in 1956, kidnapping the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 and destroying a Syrian nuclear reactor under construction in 2007. Among the fiascoes that readers may not be familiar with: killing a Moroccan waiter in Norway in 1973 after mistaking him for a Palestinian terrorist and failing to heed the warnings of a top Egyptian spy — who happened to be Gamel Abdel Nasser’s son-in-law — that Arab armies were about to launch the 1973 Yom Kippur war.
One strength of the book is that the authors do not use euphemisms. The Mossad had a “kill list” long before US President Barack Obama and has stolen military technology from the United States that Israel could not obtain by other means, they say.
—Barbara Slavin (at Al-Monitor.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780985437848
  • Publisher: Levant Books
  • Publication date: 7/2/2012
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 368
  • Sales rank: 53,826
  • File size: 763 KB

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  • Posted August 22, 2012

    SPIES AGAINST ARMAGEDDON, by Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman If a h

    SPIES AGAINST ARMAGEDDON, by Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman If a hero is
    the culmination of a man and a moment, this comprehensive, brutally
    honest chronicle of the fearless men and women whose up-to-now
    super-secret missions created, defended and inspired the state of
    Israel, and the world at large, is the most telling depiction of modern
    human heroism you may ever read. The exploits depicted in this
    beautifully researched and readable account provide the gritty human
    details—the successes, failures, relationships, distrusts, and even the
    catastrophes—behind decades of headlines that never, ever told the whole
    story. If you knew then, deep down, that you were only getting the
    cleaned up, approved, “official” version of those events—yet mostly
    likely didn’t quibble at the time with the justification for such
    censorship—you will be stunned and delighted with the depth of
    reporting, and the access to the essential personalities that Raviv and
    Melman have achieved. Moreover, they’ve managed the difficult and
    rarely successful literary feat of celebrating their admiration for
    their subjects even as they peel away the stubborn layers of their
    decisions and actions, their personalities and rivalries, to show for
    the first time publicly what went right, and far more surprisingly and
    interestingly, what went wrong, and why. This is the history of
    secret diplomacy and the ultra-secret, often lethal missions behind it,
    told the way it’s supposed to be told, not just long after the game is
    over, but while it still rages on. Remarkably, some of the names of the
    principal players—the leaders, thinkers, secret agents and double agents
    who, more than anyone, have been responsible for Israel’s ongoing
    existence—continue to turn up in today’s headlines, providing a
    consistent and memorable sense of the personality-based human history
    that continues to shape that nation’s future. If you like to delve
    behind the headlines and the history books into the actual, too-often
    hidden stories of human courage, dedication and selflessness that shape,
    and inspire the world, this remarkable book is a must read.

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  • Posted September 23, 2012

    By far the best book covering the early days of Israeli Intellig

    By far the best book covering the early days of Israeli Intelligence up to the present.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted November 2, 2012

    You Heard About it NOW Read About It

    With all the latest concerns about spys and security,here's the story behind the events you remember from the past. The World's future IS Armageddon. Read about it here!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 24, 2012

    What do you think?

    Will israel bomb Iran's nuclear sites?

    Will Israel intervene in Syria?

    Read this book!

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