TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dvir,Boaz
TI  - Saving Israel: the unknown story of smuggling weapons and winning a nation's independence 
SN  - 9780811737265
AV  - UA853.I8 D85 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Guilford
PB  - Stackpole Books
KW  - Military assistance
KW  - Israel
KW  - History, Military
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - History
KW  - Defenses
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "At the opening of Israel's war for independence in 1948, numerous Americans risked their lives, freedom, and citizenship to prevent what they viewed as a possible second Holocaust; their story is one of a covert operation involving smuggling, evading the FBI and State Department, connections to underground Jewish intelligence and military groups, and acts of personal bravery in purchasing weapons, ferrying them across thousands of miles, and taking them into combat"--
ER  -