Raid on the Sun
Subtitle: Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam the Bomb
Publisher: Broadway
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780767914253
Subjects: Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; Middle East - Israel; Military - Intelligence/Espionage; History / Middle East
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.