SPIES OF NO COUNTRY

SPIES OF NO COUNTRY

FRIEDMAN, MATTI

The four spies were young, Jewish, and born in Arab countries. In 1948, at the outbreak of war in Palestine, they went undercover in Beirut, spending two years running sabotage operations and sending crucial intelligence back home. It was dangerous work. Of the dozen members of their ragtag unit, five would be caught and executed—but the remainder would emerge as the nucleus of the Mossad, Israel’s vaunted intelligence agency.

Journalist and award-winning author Matti Friedman’s masterfully told and meticulously researched tale of Israel’s first spies reads like an espionage novel—but it’s all true. Spies of No Country is about the slippery identities of these spies, but it’s also about the complicated identity of Israel, a country that presents itself as Western but in fact has more citizens with Middle
שם: SPIES OF NO COUNTRY
מחבר/ת: FRIEDMAN, MATTI
שפה: English
תחום: ISRAEL/JEWISH INTEREST
תת תחום: Israel/Middle East
מק״ט: 028340051