Contemporary Review, August 1st, 2004
Moshe Dayan. Martin Van Creveld. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. [pounds sterling]14.99. 223 pages. ISBN 0-297-84669-8.
Moshe Dayan is the ultimate icon of Israel's heroic age. His Zionist credentials were impeccable. He grew up as a kibbutznik in the Galil, the son of swamp-draining idealists from the Ukraine. As he looked up from the lemon groves, he saw the Golan Heights. From there, in the hot nights, Syrian marauders came. The young Moshe Dayan felt the threat: a dark, formless threat, which could be met only by individual nerve and improvisation. Plans and walls were well enough, but no ulti...
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