Striking Back, Aaron J. Klein
Striking Back, Aaron J. Klein
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Striking Back
The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israels Deadly Response

Author: Aaron J. Klein

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 7 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Synopsis

1972. The Munich Olympics. Members of the Palestinian group Black September murder eleven Israeli athletes. Prime Minister Golda Meir vows to track down those responsible. Thus begins the Israeli response, a mission that unfolds over decades. No one has known the real story, until now.

About Aaron J. Klein

Aaron J. Klein is Time magazine’s military and intelligence affairs correspondent in the Jerusalem bureau. He received the 2002 Henry Luce Award and has been a consultant for CNN. Klein was the military-security correspondent and analyst for Hadashot and Al-Hamishmar, two of Israel’s leading national newspapers. He teaches at Hebrew University and is a captain in the Israeli Defense Forces’ Intelligence.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erik on September 20, 2013

Good introduction to the 1972 Munich Massacre and Israel's response. A lot of this was covered in Spielberg's Munich, though what that movie failed to make explicit is that the retaliation Israel undertook was not against the actual perpetrators of the Munich Massacre, but towards low-level Black Se......more

Goodreads review by Jirka on January 22, 2019

To zasadni jsem popsal uz behem cteni. Za me je tohle nova srdcovka a vyborny darek k Vanocum, ktery jsem dostal :)......more

Goodreads review by Scott on November 22, 2024

I love reading about Mossad and enjoyed this book I just wish the author was able to share more details in these missions. I understand for the future it is not in the best interest of Mossad to share these details but would be fascinating.......more

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