Aaron David Miller’s The Much Too Promised Land was the first book we covered in our new book club at work (looking forward to more discussions on books about Israel and the Middle East with that group). Miller spent decades in the State Department working on the Arab-Israeli peaces process and his book is a […]
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I picked up a copy of Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) this weekend in Santa Fe. Started reading it just to fill in a few minutes, then couldn’t stop reading it. Apologies to all those who’s earlier recommendations of this book to me went unheeded […] David Grossman’s The Yellow Wind: With a New Afterword by the Author is a series of short reports on life in the West Bank in the late 1980’s. The author is an Israeli novelist who spent seven weeks in the West Bank interviewing Palestinians and Israelis. I read the book on a break between histories […] A self-confessed military history nerd at work lent me Walter J. Boyne’s The Yom Kippur War: And the Airlift Strike That Saved Israel. Contrasted against Oren’s work on the Six Day War, Boyne’s book provides much greater emphasis on the military equipment used, less information on Israeli politics, very little information on Egyptian and Syrian […] |
