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The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship

Door A. Jay Cristol

Categorie
Israël & Judaica
Boeknummer
#328464-ZA3
Titel
The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship
Auteur
Cristol, A. Jay
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Dulles, VA : Brassey's
Jaar van uitgave
2002
ISBN10
1574885367
ISBN13
9781574885361
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with some b/w photographs and illustrations, maps, 8vo.
Samenvatting
On June 8, 1967, at the height of the Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors, Israeli air and naval forces attacked the USS LIBERTY, an intelligence-collection ship in the service of Israel's closest ally, while that vessel steamed in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula. The Israelis killed 34 Americans, wounded 171, and nearly sank the ship. Dozens of theories exist about what happened that day. Official inquiries conducted in both the United States and Israel attributed the event to faulty communications and tragic error, but survivors remain outspoken and not alone in their belief that the Israelis acted deliberately. Federal judge and former naval aviator A. Jay Cristol places the incident in its proper context. The Israeli strike, he argues, can only be understood ... (Lees verder)in light of the Cold War, the outbreak of war in the Middle East, interservice rivalry within the Israeli Defense Forces, and the chaos of an operational environment. That both the United States and Israel kept much of the data concerning the incident classified for more than ten years served only to fuel the fires of intrigue and charges of conspiracy to cover up the truth, but since the incident significant portions of most of the official inquiries have now been declassified. Cristol draws on these, on documents recently obtained by him through the Freedom of Information Act, and on extensive oral history interviews to deliver the most comprehensive treatment of the episode that threatened to ruin Israel's relations with the United States and has served as a nagging source of suspicion for so many years.
Pagina's
295
Conditie
Goed — Black permanent marker line on bottom cut.
Prijs
€ 10,00

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