Three Weeks in October

Here for your delectation is the SPECTACULAR & RARE——————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. NOT TO BE MISSED!!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! A FABULOUS COLLECTIBLE!!! This is the softcover stated DELL FIRST EDITION FROM FEBRUARY 1980. Both the cover (no dj) and the book are in excellent condition. There are no rips, tears, markings, etc.—and the pages and binding are tight (see photo). **Note: All books listed as FIRST EDITIONS are stated by the publisher in words or number lines–or–only stated editions that include only the publisher and publication date. Check my feedback to see that I sell exactly as I describe. So bid now for this magnificent, impossible-to-find HISTORICAL FICTION COLLECTIBLE.