Boaz Dvir

Saving Israel (eBook, ePUB)

The Unknown Story of Smuggling Weapons and Winning a Nation's Independence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The incredible true story of a WWII veteran's renegade operation to help Israel defend itself during the First Arab-Israeli War.

Shortly after Israel was created in 1948, it faced the threat of invasion by five well-equipped neighboring armies. Though the United States opposed supplying arms to either side of the conflict, American World War II veteran Al Schwimmer was determined to do whatever it takes to help Israel defend herself.

Schwimmer created factitious airlines, bought decommissioned airplanes from the government, and sent his pilots to pick up rifles, bullets, and fighter planes from the only country willing to break the international arms embargo: communist Czechoslovakia.

Schwimmer and his team risked their lives, freedom, and US citizenship to prevent what they viewed as an imminent genocide. They evaded the FBI and State Department, gained the support of the mafia, smuggled weapons-mostly Nazi surplus-across hostile territories, and went into combat in the Middle East. This book vividly tells the story of this little-known yet historically significant mission.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 315
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811766883
• Artikelnr.: 59228595

Autorenporträt

Boaz Dvir is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker who produced and directed the PBS documentary A Wing and a Prayer, which tells this story and which won best feature documentary at the 2016 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and has screened around the world at such venues as the American Jewish Historical Society in New York, Columbia University¿s Global Center in Paris, and the Library Film Festival in India. Dvir teaches journalism at Penn State and has also produced and directed the documentaries Jessie¿s Dad, Discovering Gloria, and Cojot, about a French banker who sets out to kill former Nazi Klaus Barbie. His films have been covered by the Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Post, Haaretz, the Miami Herald, Stars and Stripes, and other publications. Dvir has written for Newsday, the Miami Herald, the Tampa Bay Times, the Jerusalem Post, the Times of Israel, and Explore magazine.