The Secret Alliance: Extraordinary Story of the Rescue of the Jews Since World War II - Couverture souple

Szulc, Tad

 
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Synopsis

The true story of how nearly three million Jews have been rescued from all over the world by undercover operations since World War II. The Hebrew Immigration Service repeatedly succeeded in penetrating Eastern European and Arab governments to arrange for the legal - and often illegal - departure of Jews through bribery, co-option and any other conceivable means. Recently, and for the first time, the Hebrew Immigration Service has opened these unseen files and records and made all surviving operatives available to the author of "Secret Alliance", "The Winds of Revolution", "The Illusion of Peace" and "Fidel: A Critical Portait"

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Biographie de l'auteur

Tad Szulc was a journalist, foreign policy analyst and biographer. The author of more than 25 books, he was the winner of the Overseas Press Club Award and the Maria Moors Cabot Award for coverage of Latin America and was awarded the Legion d'Honneur. Born in Warsaw in 1925, he went to the United States following World War 2 and became a foreign correspondent for the New York Times for 20 years. At the Times, he covered Latin America -- where he broke the story of the impending-but-secret Bay of Pigs invasion -- American foreign and national security policy, and Cold War Europe, where he was present during the Soviet invasion of Czechosolvakia -- and was expelled by the KGB for his reporting. After leaving The Times, he enjoyed a prolific book writing career, which included his highly acclaimed biographies of Fidel Castro, and Pope John Paul II. He died in 2001.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 dramatic--and 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.

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