9780374249465 - The Secret Alliance: The Extraordinary Story of the Rescue of the Jews Since World War II de Szulc, Tad (19 resultados)

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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. This is a new book and DJ. Book has light speckling on top edge of text book due to dust, else as new. Not a remainder. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condición: Good +/Good. Black & White Plates Ilustrador. First Edition. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Good +/Good. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 327pp., Small tear on dustcover on back near spine; original price intact; pages clean and unmarked. .

Hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 327 pages; Description: xvii, 327 p. , [8] p. Of plates : ill. , 1 map, ports. ; 24 cm. Subject: Beri hah Organization. Holocaust survivors--Palestine. World War, 1939-1945 Jews--Rescue--Palestine. Notes: Includes index. 3 Kg.

blue & white 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated. first printing (nap). xvii+328p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. bibliography. index. world history. world war ii. history of israel. espionage. secret societies. covert operations. ~ The Secret Alliance is the story of the rescue of more than two million Jews from Eastern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East since World War II. It is the dramaticand largely unknown account of the numerous "exoduses" made possible by a remarkable clandestine alliance initiated from Palestine by Shaul Avigur, the mysterious chief of the original Mossad, and Joseph J. Schwartz, the imaginative leader of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. The Secret Alliance reveals the vast covert intelligence~and~rescue network the Joint financed and the Mossad set in motion to organize immigration operations which led, argues Tad Szulc, to the birth of the State of Israel. Once a separate Jewish homeland was established in 1948, the challenge for the Joint (and later HIAS) shifted from illegal immigration to emigration ~ freeing Jews from "countries in distress." The Secret Alliance provides in~depth accounts of those missions, from Operation Magic Carpet, which extricated the Jews of Yemen, to the extensive North African Operation Framework, which assisted hundreds of thousands of Jews in emigrating from Morocco to Israel, Canada, and Latin America, to the human~smuggling network that helped Jews~with the aid of the Kurds~escape from Iran after Khomeini's Islamic revolution in 1979, to Operations Moses and Solomon, which freed one of the world's oldest Jewish communities, the Falashas, or black Jews, of Ethiopia. Here are the backroom details of the money~for~blood deals cut with Adolf Eichmann, Nicolae Ceausescu, and Saddam Hussein; the clandestine arms purchases for the Israeli Defense Force; and the heroic efforts of private American agencies to achieve~and determine~ U.S. foreign policy objectives when Washington itself abdicated responsibility. Above all, The Secret Alliance is the inspiring story of the courageous men and women~many of them largely unknown~ who used cunning and perseverance to save the Jews against all odds: the colorful and daring Mossad operatives Shaike Dan and Alex Gattmon; the dedicated Gaynor Jacobson of the Joint and the "boys and girls" of the Brichah Jewish underground; Monsignor Angelo Roncalli, the Vatican envoy to Turkey, who helped rescue thousands of Jewish lives in the Balkans and who later became Pope John XXIII; Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty of Hungary, who acted as a secret conduit for money transfers to keep Jews alive; and Zoltan Toman, the Communist chief of secret police in Czechoslovakia, whose efforts helped 200,000 Jews streaming out of Poland in their quest for freedom. Based on extensive interviews, private correspondence, and previously confidential archives, The Secret Alliance combines narrative history with investigative journalism at its best, illuminating a saga that~with the immigration of tens of thousands of Soviet Jews to Israel~ continues to this day.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 327 pages; Description: xvii, 327 p. , [8] p. Of plates : ill. , 1 map, ports. ; 24 cm. Subject: Beri hah Organization. Holocaust survivors--Palestine. World War, 1939-1945 Jews--Rescue--Palestine. Notes: Includes index. 1 Kg.

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Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very good. xvii, [1], 327, [3] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. DJ is price clipped. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads: To Winifred Koss, Best, Tad Szulc. Tadeusz Witold Szulc (July 25, 1926 - May 21, 2001) was an author and foreign correspondent for The New York Times from 1953 to 1972. Szulc is credited with breaking the story of the Bay of Pigs invasion. From 1953 to 1972, Szulc was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. On April 6, 1961, nine days before the CIA-supported Bay of Pigs invasion, Szulc wrote a Times article stating that an invasion of Cuba was "imminent." W Joseph Campell has disproved the legend that the Times killed the story after President John F. Kennedy personally telephoned publisher Orvil Dryfoos, asking him to do so. The Times actually reduced the coverage in prominence and detail, but the article was still on the front page. Szulc's interest in Cuba continued over time, and he published an in-depth biography of Fidel Castro. In 1968, Szulc was a reporter in Czechoslovakia during the Soviet invasion against the Prague Spring. Szulc has also written articles regarding Latin America for several other publications, including The New Yorker, Esquire, Penthouse, National Geographic, and The Progressive. The story of the secret intelligence network set up to organize illegal immigration operations, which made possible, argues Szulc, the birth of Israel. Based on previously confidential archives, extensive interviews, and private correspondence, The Secret Alliance uncovers the blood-for-money deals with Eichmann, Ceaucescu and Saddam Hussein; secret arms purchases; and the heroic efforts of heroic underground operatives who rescued more than two million Jews after World War II. Derived from a Kirkus review: A well-researched, well-written account of the extensive covert activities that allowed two million Jews to get home. Szulc provides ample atonement for an American Jewish community that stands self-accused of not doing enough for their European brethren during WW II. Between 1943 and 1991, American Jews and the relief organizations they formed helped rescue nearly two million Jews from Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. This narrowly focused study spotlights obscure heroes like Joe Schwartz of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and Shaul Avigur of Mandate Palestine's Mossad. While Jews flooded allied displaced-person camps after the war to loudly press their humanitarian case before the world, agents of rescue performed the improbable in clandestine operations in Hungary, Egypt, and, most recently, Albania and Ethiopia. It is shocking to discover that thousands of dollars a head had to go from the Israeli secret service to the likes of Ceaucescu and Saddam Hussein before Jews were allowed to be smuggled out to freedom. The reporter who broke the Bay of Pigs story has broken much new ground here . Szulc has certainly succeeded in assembling the most readable book on the topic. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.