Three Weeks in October
$ 5.00
Publisher: Dell 18577
Year: 1980 Print: 1 Cover Price: $2.25
Condition: Near Fine. Not read
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 253
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THREE WEEKS IN OCTOBER by Yael Dayan After the Egyptian attack on Yom Kippur, 1973, Amalia Darom rushes to a Tel Aviv hospital to volunteer to tend the wounded that start quickly piling in. And in her burn ward, there's a horribly burned soldier without identification. Meanwhile, Amalia's husband Daniel, ostensibly a reservist but actually a member of Israeli intelligence, goes off to the Sinai front, where he joins a unit about to enter Suez City--and is soon sent on a mission to find an operative whom he himself recruited years back; he can't find him in Suez, and while there he's wounded in an ambush. Back in Tel Aviv, Amalia's unknown soldier finally dies. Eventually these two strands meet: the unidentified dead soldier was "Phoenix," Daniel's operative. Not surprisingly, Dayan (Moshe's daughter) has easy authority when writing both about intelligence and military operations. Dayan grabs and releases the catharsis of quick death, the concentrated fear and mourning and national apprehension that Israel faced in '73. This is clearly a book for overseas consumption, with lots of background explanation, but the impact is sharp and often heartbreaking.
