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A Raid on the Red Sea The Israeli Capture of the Karine A / Amos Gilboa ; edited and translated by Yonah Jeremy Bob.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilboa, Amos, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Dramah ba-Yam ha-Adom. English
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Israel. Ḥel-ha-yam. Shayeṭet 13.
- Israel.
- Karine A (Ship).
- Military intelligence.
- Illegal arms transfers.
- Blockade.
- Military intelligence--Israel.
- Illegal arms transfers--Iran.
- Blockade--Gaza Strip.
- Iran.
- Gaza Strip.
- Israel--History, Naval--21st century.
- Genre:
- Naval history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- ""A Raid on the Red Sea" is a thrilling, real-life story of illigal gun-running in the Middle East. Recounting the most successful Israeli intelligence operation since the legendary Entebbe hostage rescue, Gen. Amos Gilboa gives the harrowing details for the first time of the secret, close working relations between Israeli and American intelligence in the seizure of the Karine A ship"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The grand scheme and the ancient grudge
- Picking up the trail
- An intelligence coup
- Enter the Americans
- A moment of doubt
- Operational preparations in high gear
- Mission-ready overnight
- A waiting game
- The Karine A disappears
- A stormy new plan
- D-Day minus one
- The vapture of the Karine A
- The international tamifications
- Epilogue : The operation's heroes
- Appendix A: Key points in the Karine A story
- Appendix B. The ship's capacity and weapons cargo
- Appendix C. The Karine A crew and leading players.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-64012-444-6
- 1-64012-442-X
- OCLC:
- 1242910210
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