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Item specifics
- Condition
- Pages
- 272
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Publication Date
- 2019-03-05
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Spies of No Country : Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
- Genre
- True Crime, History, Political Science
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Israel
- Topic
- Military / Special Forces, Intelligence & Espionage, General, Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Middle East / General, Jewish
- Intended Audience
- Adults, Young Adults
- ISBN
- 9781616207229
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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"Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." -- The New York Times Book Review Award-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 hanging in the balance, these men went undercover in Beirut, where they spent the next two years operating out of a newsstand, collecting intelligence and sending messages back to Israel via a radio whose antenna was disguised as a clothesline. Of the dozen spies in the Arab Section at the war's outbreak, five were caught and executed. But in the end, the Arab Section would emerge as the nucleus of the Mossad, Israel's vaunted intelligence agency. Spies of No Country is about the slippery identities of these young 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 Eastern roots and traditions, like the spies of this narrative. Meticulously researched and masterfully told, Spies of No Country is an eye-opening look at the paradoxes of the Middle East.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-10
1616207221
ISBN-13
9781616207229
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242517806
Product Key Features
Book Title
Spies of No Country : Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / Special Forces, Intelligence & Espionage, General, Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Middle East / General, Jewish
Publication Year
2019
Genre
True Crime, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Width
5.5in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ds126.3f75 2019
Reviews
"This book sure looks like a rollicking spy story. It's got all the necessary parts: a high-stakes war for a new state's existence, double identities, suspense, betrayal. But it's more than that. This is a book about being an outsider many times over. The four spies in Spies of No Country grew up as Jews in Arab lands; came of age in British Palestine as dark-skinned Middle Easteners looked down on by their European counterparts; lived undercover as Arabs in hostile territory; and were never publicly acknowledged in Israel as the heroes they were. Justice demanded that their stories be told. We're lucky that a writer as gifted as Matti Friedman came along to tell them." --Judith Shulevitz, New York Times op-ed contributor and author of The Sabbath World "A fine, moving piece of writing, told with simplicity and artistry." --Benny Morris, author of 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War "Matti Friedman shows us how an heroic little band of Jewish spies from Arab countries helps explain the political and cultural transformation of Israel from its European Jewish origins into the largely Middle Eastern country it is today. With Spies of No Country , Matti Friedman proves that he is one of the essential interpreters of Israel writing today." --Yossi Klein Halevi, New York Times bestselling author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor " Spies of No Country is thrilling, moving, and, like everything that Matti Friedman writes, deeply humane." --Nicole Krauss, author of Forest Dark, "One of the most compelling, compulsively readable histories I've read in a long while. Matti Friedman is a lyrical writer and a master of suspenseful storytelling. His gripping spy story doesn't just narrate Israel's heroic founding--it illuminates its tortured present." -- Franklin Foer, author of World Without Mind "This book sure looks like a rollicking spy story. It's got all the necessary parts: a high-stakes war for a new state's existence, double identities, suspense, betrayal. But it's more than that. This is a book about being an outsider many times over. The four spies in Spies of No Country grew up as Jews in Arab lands; came of age in British Palestine as dark-skinned Middle Easteners looked down on by their European counterparts; lived undercover as Arabs in hostile territory; and were never publicly acknowledged in Israel as the heroes they were. Justice demanded that their stories be told. We're lucky that a writer as gifted as Matti Friedman came along to tell them." -- Judith Shulevitz, New York Times op-ed contributor and author of The Sabbath World "A fine, moving piece of writing, told with simplicity and artistry." -- Benny Morris, author of 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War "Matti Friedman shows us how an heroic little band of Jewish spies from Arab countries helps explain the political and cultural transformation of Israel from its European Jewish origins into the largely Middle Eastern country it is today. With Spies of No Country , Matti Friedman proves that he is one of the essential interpreters of Israel writing today." -- Yossi Klein Halevi, New York Times bestselling author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor " Spies of No Country is thrilling, moving, and, like everything that Matti Friedman writes, deeply humane." -- Nicole Krauss, author of Forest Dark, "At that time, Israel was many things, and the author deftly navigates the complicated identities and the stories beneath the stories . . . An exciting historical journey and highly informative look at the Middle East with Israel as the starting point." -- Kirkus Reviews "One of the most compelling, compulsively readable histories I've read in a long while. Matti Friedman is a lyrical writer and a master of suspenseful storytelling. His gripping spy story doesn't just narrate Israel's heroic founding--it illuminates its tortured present." -- Franklin Foer, author of World Without Mind "This book sure looks like a rollicking spy story. It's got all the necessary parts: a high-stakes war for a new state's existence, double identities, suspense, betrayal. But it's more than that. This is a book about being an outsider many times over. The four spies in Spies of No Country grew up as Jews in Arab lands; came of age in British Palestine as dark-skinned Middle Easteners looked down on by their European counterparts; lived undercover as Arabs in hostile territory; and were never publicly acknowledged in Israel as the heroes they were. Justice demanded that their stories be told. We're lucky that a writer as gifted as Matti Friedman came along to tell them." -- Judith Shulevitz, New York Times op-ed contributor and author of The Sabbath World "A fine, moving piece of writing, told with simplicity and artistry." -- Benny Morris, author of 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War "Matti Friedman shows us how an heroic little band of Jewish spies from Arab countries helps explain the political and cultural transformation of Israel from its European Jewish origins into the largely Middle Eastern country it is today. With Spies of No Country , Matti Friedman proves that he is one of the essential interpreters of Israel writing today." -- Yossi Klein Halevi, New York Times bestselling author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor " Spies of No Country is thrilling, moving, and, like everything that Matti Friedman writes, deeply humane." -- Nicole Krauss, author of Forest Dark, "If Matti Friedman had done nothing more than write an exquisite account of a thrilling and all-but-forgotten story of the origins of the Israeli spy system, dayenu --that would have been achievement enough. But Friedman has done something far more ambitious and important: He shows us how an heroic little band of Jewish spies from Arab countries helps explain the political and cultural transformation of Israel from its European Jewish origins into the largely Middle Eastern country it is today. With Spies of No Country , Matti Friedman proves that he is one of the essential interpreters of Israel writing today." -- Yossi Klein Halevi, New York Times bestselling author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
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2019
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