Raid on the Sun
Subtitle: Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam the Bomb
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Broadway
Published: April 13, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780767914000
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Military History (General); Middle East - History; Osirak Nuclear Reactor Bombing; History; History - General History; Military - Other; History: World; Iraq; Middle East - Israel; Military - Intelligence/Espionage; Military - Nuclear Warfare; Current Events / International; Nuclear reactors; Osirak Nuclear Reactor Bombing, Iraq, 1981; Middle East - General; Arab-Israeli conflict
First sentence: Before the birth of its First Citizen, the flat, dusty village of Al Auja, just south of Tikrit and a hundred miles north of nowhere in the Mesopotamian desert, was best known to historians as the site where the vicious fourteenth-century Tartar chieftain Tamerlane chose to erect his infamous pyramid of skulls, a towering obelisk of death fashioned from the decapitated heads of thousands of slaughtered Persian soldiers.