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050 00 DS126.96.A3|bG36 2017 
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100 1  Gandt, Robert L.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Angels in the sky :|bhow a band of volunteer airmen saved 
       the new state of Israel /|cRobert Gandt. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c[2017] 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    xix, 442 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations, map ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-421) and 
       index. 
505 0  Part one: A war waiting to happen -- Part two: Besieged --
       Part three: Fortunes of war. 
520    "The gripping story of how an all-volunteer air force 
       helped defeat five Arab nations and protect the fledgling 
       Jewish state. In 1948, only three years after the 
       Holocaust, the newly founded nation of Israel came under 
       siege from a coalition of Arab states. The invaders vowed 
       to annihilate the tiny country and its 600,000 settlers. A
       second Holocaust was in the making. Outnumbered sixty to 
       one, the Israelis had no allies, no regular army, no air 
       force, no superpower to intercede on their behalf. The 
       United States, Great Britain, and most of Europe enforced 
       a strict embargo on the shipment of arms to the embattled 
       country. In the first few days, the Arab armies overran 
       Israel. The Egyptian air force owned the sky, making 
       continuous air attacks on Israeli cities and army 
       positions. Israel's extinction seemed certain. And then 
       came help. From the United States, Canada, Britain, France,
       South Africa arrived a band of volunteer airmen. Most were
       World War II veterans--young, idealistic, swaggering, 
       noble, eccentric, courageous beyond measure. Many were 
       Jews, a third were not. Most of them knowingly violated 
       their nations' embargoes on the shipment of arms and 
       aircraft to Israel. They smuggled in Messerschmitt 
       fighters from Czechoslovakia, painting over swastikas with
       Israeli stars. Defying their own countries' strict laws, 
       the airmen risked everything--their lives, careers, 
       citizenship--to fight for Israel. They were a small group,
       fewer than 150. In the crucible of war they became 
       brothers in a righteous cause. They flew, fought, died, 
       and, against all odds, helped save a new nation. The saga 
       of the volunteer airmen in Israel's war of independence 
       stands as one of the most stirring--and untold--war 
       stories of the past century"--|cProvided by publisher. 
610 10 Israel.|bḤel ha-aṿir|xHistory. 
610 10 Israel.|bḤel ha-aṿir. 
610 17 Israel.|bḤel ha-aṿir.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00578313 
611 27 Israel-Arab War (1948-1949)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00980263 
648  0 1948-1949. 
648  7 1948-1949|2fast 
650  0 Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. 
650  0 Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949|xAerial operations. 
650  0 Fighter pilots|vBiography. 
650  0 Airplanes, Military|zIsrael|xHistory. 
650  0 Military operations, Aerial. 
650  0 History. 
650  0 Airplanes, Military. 
650  0 Fighter pilots. 
650  0 Military. 
650  0 Aeronautics. 
650  7 Airplanes, Military.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00803587 
650  7 Fighter pilots.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00923988 
650  7 Military operations, Aerial.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01710198 
650  7 HISTORY / Middle East / Israel.|2bisacsh 
650  7 HISTORY / Military / Aviation.|2bisacsh 
651  0 Middle East. 
651  0 Israel. 
651  7 Israel.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204236 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
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