Moshe Dayan (Great Commanders S.) - Hardcover

Van Creveld, Prof Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297846698 ISBN 13: 9780297846697

Publisher: W&N, 2004

Synopsis

Martin van Creveld's Moshe Dayan tells the story of one man and of one people, to whom he was a figurehead - a symbol of their patriotism and their determination to survive. Born in a kibbutz in 1915, Dayan joined the Hagana when he was just fourteen, thus starting early a military career that saw him serve in every war fought in the Middle East from the War of Israeli Independence in 1948 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Twice he led his country's forces into smashing victories. Having planned and executed the one and directed the other, with his one eye he towers over them like Nelson over the Battle of Trafalgar.
Skilled in battle, skilled in diplomacy, like many powerful public figures, Moshe Dayan's private life was far from mundane. The book quotes from little-known sources, including an account written by one of his mistresses, that reveal much about his character and his life away from the battlefield. This is an honest portrayal of both the private and the public figure, which seeks to understand a man whose contribution to the state of Israel in its developing years was immeasurable.

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Review:

Martin van Creveld is a leading military historian and a professor in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in this short and fluent biography he draws extensively on Dayan's writings... a very modern hero. (THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

Book Description:

Biography of Israel's greatest ever military commander

About this edition

• Publisher: W&N
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0297846698
• ISBN 13: 9780297846697
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224