Spies of No Country
"Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." --The New York Times Book ReviewAward-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including…
Specifikacia Spies of No Country
"Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." --The New York Times Book ReviewAward-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff--but it's all true.Journalist and award-winning author Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies reads like an espionage novel--but it's all true. The four agents at the center of this story were part of a ragtag unit known as the Arab Section, conceived during World War II by British spies and Jewish militia leaders in Palestine. Intended to gather intelligence and carry out sabotage operations, the unit consisted of Jews who were native to the Arab world and could thus easily assume Arab identities.In 1948, with Israel's existence