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Fire in the Sky

其他書名	Flying in Deference of Israel
出版	Pen and Sword, 2005-07-19
主題	History / Military / Aviation & SpaceHistory / Middle East / Israel & PalestineBiography & Autobiography / MilitaryBiography & Autobiography / Aviation & Nautical
ISBN	17830337549781783033751
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FMvHDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The story of a Middle Eastern pilot’s life—from his childhood in Tel Aviv during WWII to his early career in the Israeli Air Force to the Lebanon War.

General Amos Amir’s autobiography tells the story of the man, the warrior and the commander and the story of the struggling, newly-born, Israeli Air Force. From the Six Day War of 1967 and onward, the IAF turned to be an extremely important component of the overall Israeli defense power. The years from the Sinai War in 1956, through the Six-Day-War, the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the Lebanon War in 1982, were the years of Amir's flying, fighting and commanding career.

Amir tells his own story in talented, vivid and fluent language. He succeeds in pulling the reader into his narrow cockpit from the early stages of his flying school to later air combats and reconnaissance missions. Tense dogfights, long-range reconnaissance missions and memorable aerial episodes, including piloting a Phantom jet from the deck of the American carrier Kitty Hawk, are vividly described. The book reveals previously untold stories about the traumatic Yom Kippur War of 1973 and the early stages of the war in Lebanon in the 1982.