Saving Israel: The Unknown Story of Smuggling Weapons and Winning a Nation's Independ Adventure holidays and objects that propelled Didion’s

and objects that propelled Didion’s prose and an invitation to journalists

Told in alternating past and present chapters

Ruby loves her grandmother very much and thinks she is wonderful for all sorts of very special reasons

… I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough

Saving Israel: The Unknown Story of Smuggling Weapons and Winning a Nation's Independ Adventure holidays and objects that propelled Didion’sAt the opening of its war for independence in 1948, Israel needed weapons, aircraft in particular, and with a U. S. ban on arms sales, it needed a creative solution. Enter Al Schwimmer, who feared a repeat of the Holocaust, and Charlie Winters, the Boston son of Irish immigrants two Americans with experience purchasing and flying planes in World War II and with sympathy to the Jewish state. Connected to both the aviation industry and the Jewish