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Like dreamers : the story of the israeli paratroopers who reunited jerusalem and divided a nation

In June 1967, Israel achieved the unimaginable'a decisive victory against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in the Six-Day War. The most symbolic triumph for the young nation was the reunification of Israeli West Jerusalem and Jordanian East Jerusalem, achieved at great cost by a group of paratroopers from the 55th Paratroopers Reserve Brigade. In restoring Jewish sovereignty to the Holy City, these men fulfilled the dream of two millennia, changing the history of Israel and of the Middle East. And as veteran journalist Yossi Klein Halevi shows in

eBook, English, 2014
Harper, [Place of publication not identified], 2014