Israel from the Air

Israel from the Air
Title Israel from the Air PDF eBook
Author Itamar Grinberg
Publisher VMB Publishers
Pages 0
Release 2007
Genre Travel
ISBN 9788854008328

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"Israel, Palestine, the Holy Land, a country that evokes deep emotions in millions of people throughout the world, is vividly brought to life in this magnificent collection of aerial photographs. From the golden domes of Jerusalem to the deep desert craters of the Negev, and from Kibbutz fields to camel trains, Itamar Grindberg has captured a stunning array of images from a land of endless contrasts. Israel's rich past is never far removed from its energetic present in this exhilarating mosaic of a hundred lands wrapped into one."--Back cover

Air War on the Edge

Air War on the Edge
Title Air War on the Edge PDF eBook
Author Bill Norton
Publisher Ian Allan Publishing
Pages 440
Release 2004
Genre History
ISBN

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Never before has there been a book published on the aircraft, units and exploits of the Israel Air Force in such depth. Interest in the IAF has always been high and seldom are its aircrew and aircraft out of the world's headlines. Previous books have failed to satisfy, either being sensationalist and low on factual content, or lacking in fundamental research. Bill Norton has trawled through thousands of documents, reports, and illustrations to produce a work that is staggering in its depth and knowledge. Those that think they know the IAF will find a wealth of new material and countless previously published 'facts' re-evaluated and righted. Detailed type-by-type coverage supported by a barrage of photographs of the IAF from the mixed bag of aircraft of its formative days, through the Suez Campaign, the Six Day War, Yom Kippur and on to be a sophisticated, well-equipped force, arguably the most experienced in the world. Included for the first time are all of the badges and heraldry of the units of the IAF, in full color.

Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel

Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel
Title Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel PDF eBook
Author Robert Gandt
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 586
Release 2017-10-03
Genre History
ISBN 039325478X

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“Reads like a World War II thriller, only better because every word is true.… One of the great untold stories of history. Robert Gandt has brought it vividly, unforgettably to life.” —Steven Pressfield, best-selling author of Gates of Fire In 1948, when the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from a coalition of Arab states, a band of volunteer airmen from the United States, Canada, Britain, France, and South Africa arrived to help. They were a small group, fewer than 150. Many were World War II veterans; most of them knowingly violated their nations’ embargoes on the shipment of arms and aircraft to Israel. The airmen risked everything—their careers, citizenship, and lives—to fight for Israel. The saga of the volunteer airmen in Israel’s war of independence stands as one of the most stirring—and little-known—war stories of the past century.

Air Operations in Israel's War Against Hezbollah

Air Operations in Israel's War Against Hezbollah
Title Air Operations in Israel's War Against Hezbollah PDF eBook
Author Benjamin S. Lambeth
Publisher Rand Corporation
Pages 532
Release 2011
Genre History
ISBN 083305841X

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In response to a surprise incursion by Hezbollah combatants into northern Israel and their abduction of two Israeli soldiers, Israel launched a campaign that included the most complex air offensive to have taken place in the history of the Israeli Air Force (IAF). Many believe that the inconclusive results of this war represent a "failure of air power." The author demonstrates that this conclusion is an oversimplification of a more complex reality. He assesses the main details associated with the Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF's) campaign against Hezbollah to correct the record regarding what Israeli air power did and did not accomplish (and promise to accomplish) in the course of contributing to that campaign. He considers IAF operations in the larger context of the numerous premises, constraints, and ultimate errors in both military and civilian leadership strategy choice that drove the Israeli government's decisionmaking throughout the counteroffensive. He also examines the IDF's more successful operation against the terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip in December 2008 and January 2009, to provide points of comparison and contrast in the IDF's conduct of the latter campaign based on lessons learned and assimilated from its earlier combat experience in Lebanon.--Publisher description.

Fire in the Sky

Fire in the Sky
Title Fire in the Sky PDF eBook
Author Amos Amir
Publisher Pen and Sword Aviation
Pages 328
Release 2005
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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Describes the early years of the Israeli Air Force - now one of the most efficient in the World. General Amos Amir's autobiography tells the story of the man, the warrior and the commander and the story of the struggling, newly-born Israeli Air Force. From the Six Days War of 1967 and onward, the IAF turned to be an extremely important component of the overall Israeli defense power. The years from the Sinai War in 1956, through the Six-Day-War, the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the Lebanon War in 1982, were the years of Amir's flying, fighting and commanding career. Amir tells his own story in talented, vivid and fluent language. He succeeds in pulling the reader into his narrow cockpit from the early stages of his flying school to later air combats and reconnaissance missions. Tense dogfights, long-range reconnaissance missions and memorable aerial episodes, including piloting a Phantom jet from the deck of the American carrier Kitty Hawk, are vividly described. The book reveals previously untold stories about the traumatic Yom Kippur War of 1973 and the early stages of the war in Lebanon in the 1982.

Palestine on the Air

Palestine on the Air
Title Palestine on the Air PDF eBook
Author Karma R. Chavez
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 229
Release 2019-10-15
Genre History
ISBN 0252051858

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Few doubt the pro-Israel bias of the Western media. It takes the form of overtly supporting Israel's government policies, or of maintaining neutrality or silence on issues of Israeli violence, occupation, and settlement expansion. Scholar and activist Karma R. Chávez collects eleven interviews that allow dissenting voices a forum to provide rarely heard perspectives on the Palestinian struggle for justice, land, and self-determination.This volume in the Common Threads series is a supplement to the Journal of Civil and Human Rights. The conversations within took place on a radio program Chávez hosted from 2013-16. There, journalists, activists, academic figures, authors, and Palestinian citizens of Israel shared a wide range of thoughts and experiences. Participants covered topics that include: everyday life for Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel; the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement that arose in response to Israel's ongoing actions; the Steven Salaita controversy at the University of Illinois; the pro-Palestine social movement on college campuses; Israel's pinkwashing of human rights abuses; the aftermath of the 2014 attack on Gaza; and Chávez's 2015 visit to the West Bank.

Israel's Best Defense

Israel's Best Defense
Title Israel's Best Defense PDF eBook
Author Eliezer Cohen
Publisher
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Release 1995-01-01
Genre
ISBN 9780517137895

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