New nonfiction and biography on order new additions are in bold italics. Saul davids most popular book is operation thunderbolt. Flight 9 and the raid on entebbe airport, the most audacious. After much debate, the israeli government sent an elite commando.
Dr david scott, senior research fellow in history at the humanities research institute, gave a lecture on the men who made leviathan 2 may 20. One enduring lesson of operation thunderbolt is the value of leaders debating and discussing rather than one person suggesting an idea and everyone else nodding in agreement. Operation thunderbolt, by saul david the new york times. On june 27, 1976, an air france flight from tel aviv to paris was hijacked by a group of arab and german terrorists who demanded the.
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