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In the mid-1970s, plane hijacks were an almost weekly occurrence. Palestinian and pro-Palestinian terrorists targeted Western airlines, and it seemed as if the world's security forces were powerless to stop them. On the afternoon of 27 June 1976, a scheduled Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked by German and Palestinian terrorists and flown to Entebbe in Uganda, ruled by one of Africa's bloodiest and most unpredictable tyrants, Idi Amin. The bulk of the 248 passengers and 12 crew were French and Israeli, with the balance including Americans, Greeks, Canadians, Moroccans, Brazilians, Spanish, New Zealanders, Australians, Turks and Brazilians. Within hours of the plane landing at Entebbe, the terrorists began to issue extravagant demands for the hostages' release as it soon became clear that President Amin would not intervene. For six days, the passengers lay under guard in the old terminal at Entebbe airport, as the world held its breath. On the morning of 4 July 1976, American Bicentennial Day, the world awoke to hear news of a miracle. In the middle of the previous night, four Israeli C-130 Hercules had flown more than 4,000 kilometres and landed covertly at Entebbe to disgorge a storming party of Israeli soldiers. The commandos assaulted the old terminal, killed all the terrorists and rescued every passenger, apart from three unfortunate people killed in the crossfire. A sick British Jewish woman had earlier been removed to a hospital in the city, and she was later murdered in an act of vengeance on Amin's orders. The assault force suffered only one fatality: its commander, Yoni Netanyahu (brother of Israel's current Prime Minister). Forty years on, Saul David tells the extraordinary story of Operation Thunderbolt using previously classified documents from five countries - Israel, the UK, the US, France and Germany - and personal interviews with more than twenty participants, including Israeli soldiers and politicians, hostages, a key member of the Kenyan government and a former member of the terrorist organization whose testimony gives fresh insights into the motivation of the two German fighters killed in the raid. General Bill McRaven, architect of the successful US mission to kill Osama Bin Laden, recently called the raid 'the best illustration of the theory of special operations yet presented'. Now this book, both a thrilling page turner and a major piece of historical detective work, shows how the outcome of Israel's most famous military operation depended on secret backdoor diplomacy and would have failed but for the humanity of a single terrorist.

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• Plný název: Operation Thunderbolt
• Autor: Saul David
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 432
• EAN: 9781444762518
• ID: 09221319
• Nakladatelství: Hodder & Stoughton
• Hmotnost: 930 g
• Rozměry: 234 × 153 × 41 mm
• Datum vydání: 02. July 2015

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