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Brothers: A Novel
Bar-Zohar, Michael
1993 46748 y Despite a tantalizing setup, this Cold War thriller quickly descends to the level of soap opera. Bar-Zohar, whose previous espionage fiction ( The Devil's Spy ) has appeared under the pseudonym Michael Hastings, opens on a scene from the Stalinist purges--the trial and execution of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Writers Committee. Tonya Gordon, a poet whose husband has been sentenced to death, escapes the same fate by marrying NKVD officer Boris Morozov in order to save her son, Alex. Boris and Tonya have another son, but eventually the purges catch up to Tonya. Boris avoids his own fall long enough to smuggle Alex to Tonya's sister in Brooklyn and to stash his own son, Dimitri, in a harsh military orphanage. Later, Alex embarks on an academic career in Russian studies while Dimitri ends up as a top international killer for the KGB. A CIA agent, planning to get at Dimitri through Alex, engineers a reunion in Paris. The brothers fall for the same woman (a Romanov, no less) and straight into espionage stereotypes. Exposed to Dimitri's evil nature, Alex joins the CIA to wage lifelong war against his KGB brother; each rises to head his organization. The early Soviet history and the stunning finale aren't enough to salvage the cliched characterizations and plot. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal In Moscow during the last bloody days of Stalin's regime, two half-brothers are separated. One is sent to America to be raised as a Jew, the other to a state orphanage. Quickly, each comes to represent an archetype. The American is educated, free-thinking, trusting and trustworthy, loving and loved; the Russian is a KGB killer, virulently anti-Semitic, secretive, and deceitful. The Cold War brings them into conflict. Their stories, intertwined and opposed, mirror the author's view of the situations of their two nations. . Fawcett 0-449-90511-X / 9780449905111
Hardcover As New Condition New York
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LIONHEARTS: HEROES OF ISRAEL
Bar-Zohar, Michael
1998 0446523585 In every generation and on every battle-field that mark the history of modern Israel, heroes have risen with the courage to take the lead - exemplary figures who redeemed a nation yet asked nothing for themselves, not gratitude or compensation, honor or glory. This book is dedicated to these extraordinary personalities as well as everyday people, who fell in combat or on Israel's secret fronts and to those still alive today. It is also dedicated to the spirit of these lionhearts, to those qualities of self-sacrifice for a common humanity without which no people can exist. Four Israeli presidents, three prime ministers, and ten cabinet ministers, as well as Knesset members, generals, writers, scholars, and artists have joined together to write the saga of the Lions of Israel celebrated in these pages. Protagonists include Sarah Aharonson, a daring female spy in Turkish-controlled Palestine during World War I; Meir Har-Zion, the paratrooper who in the years after independence trained and led into battle the boldest Israeli soldiers; Eli Cohen, the audacious secret agent executed by Syria; Colonel Yoni Netanyahu, the brother of the present prime minister who was killed while leading the legendary hostage rescue at Entebbe; and dozens more, sons and daughters of Israel who did not hesitate to risk their lives for the sake of a free nation. Warner Books, Incorporated 0446523585 / 9780446523585
Hardcover AS NEW CONDITION As New Book Jacket New York, NY
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