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Spies of no country secret lives at the birth of Israel

"The story of a ragtag unit known as the Arab Section, which was conceived in Palestine during World War II by British spies and Jewish militia leaders, and which eventually became the nucleus of the Mossad, Israel's vaunted intelligence agency"--

Main Author:	Friedman, Matti (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Undercover operations > Israel. Special forces (Military science) > Israel. Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. Palestine > History > 1929-1948.

Summary:	"The story of a ragtag unit known as the Arab Section, which was conceived in Palestine during World War II by British spies and Jewish militia leaders, and which eventually became the nucleus of the Mossad, Israel's vaunted intelligence agency"--
Physical Description:	xvii, 248 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-245).
ISBN:	9781616207229 1616207221
Author Notes:	Matti Friedman's 2016 book Pumpkinflowers was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book and as one of Amazon's 10 Best Books of the Year. It was selected as one of the year's best by Booklist, Mother Jones, Foreign Affairs, the National Post, and the Globe and Mail . His first book, The Aleppo Codex, won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize, the ALA's Sophie Brody Medal, and the Canadian Jewish Book Award for history. A former AssociatedPress correspondent, Friedman has reported from Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Moscow, the Caucasus, and Washington, DC, and his writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Atlantic , the Washington Post , and elsewhere. Friedman grew up in Toronto and now lives with his family in Jerusalem.

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