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Sto caricando le informazioni... Mossad Exodus; The Daring Undercover Rescue of the Lost Jewish Tribedi Gad Shimron
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. The average person's expectation of a Mossad story is something like 'The House on Garibaldi Street', or fictional characters like Ziva David on NCIS. Sadly, Mossad Exodus does not rise to those standards. As noted previously, the story is disjointed, lacking helpful transitions. Also, I didn't get drawn into the story on an emotional level - it just lacks that hook that holds your attention.I will say, this book does detail an important historical event, and operation conceived by the Mossad. It was something that as an historian, I had not heard of before, and for that, I am glad to have had the opportunity to review it. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. For concerning an event I had no idea occurred involving ethnic groups I had no idea existed, not a bad read. The book functioned better as a vehicle for Shimron's entertaining anecdotes, though, more than it did as illuminating a historical event for an unknowing public. (Perhaps this is just my own ignorance shining through). Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. A great perspective of yet another little known operation by one of the world's most mysterious and powerful intelligence services, the Mossad. Although overall the story was somewhat disjointed, it is no more disjointed then a lot of perspectives and memoirs written by other members of the intelligence community around the world. However, more depth would have been helpful in bringing the reader more fully into the study and giving them a reason to connect with the events of the book and the reasoning behind them. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. I was disappointed with the book. The book was, as another reviewer noted, disjointed. While the story seemed to progress down a certain path through time, there would be tidbits here and there thrown in from the future (and past). Information from the future/past (foreshadowing and past memories), can work, of course, but the book’s overall storyline/plot (what do you call this in nonfiction?) was quite shallow. Shallow long the lines of a “this happened, and then this happened and then . .”. If there was more depth, then those tidbits from here and there might have seemed less disjointed. (A side note: it didn’t help that I thought that the book was going to be about the Mossad special forces rescue of the highjacked plane; but was instead about the Mossad rescue of Jewish refugees). nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: In 1977, Israel s Mossad spy agency was given an assignment far different from its usual cloak and dagger activities. It was ordered by then Prime Minister Menachem Begin to rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan and deliver them to me in the Jewish state. No stranger to action in enemy countries, the agency established a covert forward base in a deserted holiday village in Sudan, and deployed a handful of operatives to launch and oversee the exodus of the refugees to the Promised Land, by sea and by air, in the early 1980s. Gad Shimron, the author of this book, was one of their number. First published in Hebrew in 1998, this updated English version of the book offers a thrilling firsthand account of how the operation was put in place, and how the Mossad team in Sudan brought it off, despite great personal risk, running a partying vacation spot for wealthy tourists by day as they stole through the Sudanese desert to rescue desperate refugees by night. The book sheds light on American involvement in the latter stages of the operation, when the White House facilitated an airlift of Ethiopian Jews and the CIA station in Khartoum sheltered the last Mossad operatives, on the run from Libyan secret service agents, and spirited them out of Sudan in special boxes labeled Diplomatic Mail. Enhanced by Gad Shimron s wide-ranging historical observations and his crisp, incisive prose, this is at once an entertaining read and a powerful tale of idealistic heroism. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Shimron is a good writer and the story is made even more interesting because he relates all of the obstacles he encounters during the time of the rescues. In addition, the reader learns a great deal about how the Mossad operates and follows the endearing and funny exploits of these Israeli heroes.
Shimron and his buddies have many adventures including diving expeditions, while actually creating a tourist resort in the middle of nowhere in the Sudan desert. Keep in mind, these men are willing to spend day after day in the very, very hot temperatures of Arous, Sudan. They are a small group of twenty and thirty year olds who worked in Sudan under difficult conditions, minimal phone contact, electricity that could not counted on to be available most of the time, and limited access to water with not much to do in the area. Of course, things improved as they built up the pretend tourist resort!
I found the book the most interesting when Shimron is describing the actual rescue efforts. Each time I wondered if they would get caught and what the consequences would be. At one point, Shimron explains that the Ethiopian Jews are being rescued by a large aircraft and are scared to death since they've never seen an airplane before. One of the Ethiopians describes the scene and how he felt entering the large plane, "I felt like the prophet Jonah who was swallowed by the whale," he tells Shimron.
After the rescue operations are over for Gad Shimron, he works at Maarev at the foreign news desk in Israel. Years later he takes a trip back to Ethiopia and tells the reader yet another interesting story about his exploits. This fascinating book is filled with many worthwhile stories of inspiration and heroism. Definitely worth reading and learning more about the positive side of human nature! ( )