Entebbe Rescue

Description

Signed by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, first American edition of Entebbe Rescue by Yeshayahu Ben-Porat, Eitan Haber and Zeev Schiff.

Octavo, xvi, [2], 346pp, [2]. Silver hardcover, spine in black vellum, title stamped in silver on spine. First published in Tel Aviv in 1976 by Zmora, Bitan, Modan Publishers. Light wear to boards, bumped top corner, solid text block. In the publisher’s dust jacket, retail price on front flap, glossy pictorial covers, rubbing along bottom edge, a very good example. Signed by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the half-title: “To: Louis Newman, The book that describes an action of courage and imagination. Y. Rabin. Passover 1978.”

This book recounts the Israeli counter-terrorist rescue of hostages at Entebbe Airport in Uganda in 1976. Known as Operation Entebbe, commandos from the Israeli Defense Forces rescued 102 hostages from a hijacked Air France aircraft, originally scheduled to fly from Tel Aviv to Paris. The events of this rescue were covered extensively in the media, most recently in the action movie, Entebbe (2018).