Books Details
Author : Matti Friedman Pages : 272 pages Publisher : Algonquin
Books Language : ISBN-10 : 37578115-spies-of-no-country ISBN-13
: 9781616207229
Books Descriptions
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.The four spies 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 and assassinations, 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 in the balance during the War of
Independence, our spies went undercover in Beirut, where they
spent the next two years operating out of a kiosk, collecting
intelligence, and sending messages back to Israel via a radio
whose antenna was disguised as a clothesline. While performing
their dangerous work these men were often unsure to whom they
were reporting, and sometimes
