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Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the raid on Entebbe Airport, the most audacious hostage rescue mission in history

By David , Saul

Book information

Publisher
Little, Brown and Company;Hodder & Stoughton
Year
2015
ISBN
9780316245401, 0316245402, 9781444762525, 1444762524
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6730777 bytes)
Pages
446 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illust
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1976;HISTORY--Africa--General;HISTORY--Military--SArab-Israeli conflict;Entebbe Airport RaidArmed Struggle;HISTORY -- Military -- Special Forc

Description

The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David. On June 27, 1976, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked by a group of Arab and German terrorists who demanded the release of 53 terrorists. The plane was forced to divert to Entebbe, in Uganda--ruled by the murderous despot Idi Amin, who had no interest in intervening. Days later, Israeli commandos disguised as Ugandan soldiers assaulted the airport terminal, killed all the terrorists, and rescued all the hostages but three who were killed in the crossfire. The assault force suffered just one fatality: its commander, Yoni Netanyahu (brother of Israel's current Prime Minister.) Three of the country's greatest leaders: Ehud Barak, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin planned and pulled off one of the most astonishing military operations in history.

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