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HBDJ, 1917, Early printing, GOOD/GOOD-, AS-IS, RED Cloth Lettered in Black Cover light Wear, Interior Nice Tight Clean Light FOX AGING Wear, DJ light Rub, wear ,Creases, Tiny Chips Tears Extremities, Back ... Read more

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Every normal boy loves a motor-boat but words fail to express his enthusiasm when that boat is also a racer. ... Read more

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Every normal boy loves a motor-boat, but words fail to express his enthusiasm when that boat is also a racer'Download Description
The long, low motor-boat glided smoothly out from the dock to which it had been made fast. Behind it the water boiled as if it had been stirred by some invisible furnace. The graceful lines of the boat, its manifest power and speed, formed a fitting complement to the bright sunshine and clear air which rested over the waters of the Hudson River.rapidly behind her, were assembled various members of the families represented by the four boys on board the motor-boat. Younger brothers and sisters, two uncles, several aunts, not to mention the various fathers and mothers united in a final word of farewell. Handkerchiefs were waved and the sounds of the last faint call came across the intervening waters. ... Read more

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Set your jaw straight. . . and join the fun
Written for schoolboys this insipid book written near the end of the First World War, is the final in a series of seven on the war.This is no "All is Quiet on the Western Front."The Huns are killed by the thousands as their officers force them into battle, whereas only a few Americans are killed-dying relatively clean heroic deaths.There is no mud and squalor, no corpse filled trenches, no terror, no fear.Only red-blooded American boys who "set their jaws straight" singing "lustily" "joining the fun" as they eagerly march into battle.

Let's see if I got this right . . . we were fighting "cowardly, mean, lying, baby killing Huns. ..the worse race of people that have ever been on this earth. ..the beasts. . . just plain devils. . . " and that's only the half of it. Pure propaganda. I did learn something.Those American boys, were told to fight cleanly . . . um.Also, unlike the German generals who forced their men into battle with suicide charges, the French General Foch "valued men more than territory."Gosh, with Generals like that, I wonder why the French Army mutinied during the war?
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One of the best spy stories I haveever read
This is such an incredible (and true!) spy-story. The writing is sharp, and keeps you turning the page. I usually don't read non-fiction narratives, but I loved this book. It is such a great story, and it is so well written, that you can't do anything but be caught up in this tale.

This is the real deal
Unlike the obvious fiction of "Vengeance" (the pseudo-history on which the movie Munich was based) this one was indubitably written by one who really has "been there, done that." It's a fine book unencumbered by the sort of purple prose that often infects memoirs of first-time authors, though it does contain an inexplicable howler about the thoroughly mythical supposed efficacy of Black Talon ammunition.

As for the Publisher's Weekly review, it's politically-correct drivel that disgraces the Amazon web site.

Anyone who is interested in what really went on should buy this book.

Good Insight Into Mossad!
"Volunteer" is the story of Michael Ross. He was formerly a Canadian citizen who had served in the Canadian Army. He went on a hitchhiking tour and wound up in Israel. He moved into a kibbutz and married an
Israeli girl. He then served in the Isareli army(IDF). After his service in the IDF he was recruited by Mossad. He describes in detail the hard
training he had to endure. His first assignment was the Caesarea. During
the Gulf War he had a hand in marking a ship that was shipping scuds from
North Korea to Syria. On his next assignment he slipped into Iran to make
an assessment of the Iranian nuclear program. The book points out the deep
hatred that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadine jad has for Israel. It also
points out the Hezbollah-Iranian connection. Ross was next sent to Khartoum in Sudan to target Hezbollah members. Khartoum was known as Terror Central. Osama bin-Ladin used to be part of the network in Sudan.
Ross was next promoted to the Tevel Department in the Mossad. He had a role catching a Hezbollah agent named Ramez who was based in the Detroit area. There was also a section concerning Jonathan Pollard. Ross also was
active in catching the terrorists who set off truck bombs in Nairobi,Kenya,and Oar Es Salaam. This proved to be a very informative book by an actual spy.

Excellent insight
Very interesting, insightful and captivating.

A couple of comments regarding the editorial reviews presented here:

- A self-account book need not be balanced, show what the "other side" think of it, etc. You want a balanced view? Get a history book. The author here conveys his view, his beliefs and his experiences, which lets the reader get a little glimpse into the Israeli life and ethos.

- The occupation is not "intact" in Gaza Strip, when Israel fully pulled out, after intense international pressure to do so. The current situation is that some locals are actually fleeing the "free" area of Gaza to the still-occupied West Bank.

Non-Fiction Page Turner that reads like Fiction
Ross quickly inserts you into his exciting and important life's work with the Mossad in a way that keeps you invested in the outcome of not only his career, but also the security of America and Israel.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys spy books, learning about the mysteriously effective Mossad and the very intricate relationship between Israel and America. ... Read more

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Betsy Ross, Graphically
I think that the Graphic Library series is very helpful and I use them in my classroom.This one is about Betsy Ross and the creation of the American Flag.It makes clear that the only proof that Betsy Ross created the flag was an oral history told by her grandson.Who knows?It wouldn't be the first oral history to be true!Recommended. ... Read more

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Describes the grieving process that occurs when people lose pets and suggests ways of helping individuals to cope. ... Read more

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Too Brief, Unrelated Compendium of Simplistic Articles
I purchased this book impressed by its title, in need of solace for the wound of euthanizing a deeply loved companion/pet.I was stunned by the political nature of the author-editor's opening essay, in effect a judgment of euthanasia (a blanket judgment).I came quickly to feel that the intent of this work--if not of the individual articles culled from a variety of sources--was to preach covertly against euthanasia.At any rate, I could not find a unifying theme to the disparate articles, and certainly the title is misleading.Any reader who wants a book to help with bereavement and grief will instead find very brief, clinical discussions of subjects like the difficulty of being a veterinarian; or how emotionally-troubled children react to pet loss.

Highly clinical, confusing, and often superficial work. ... Read more

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HBDJ, 1916, Early Edition, VG+/GOOD+, AS-IS DUSTJACKET good shape. Little nicks here and there. There is no other writing or torn page ... Read more

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The riveting story of a Canadian who serves as a senior officer in Israel’s legendary Mossad.

In 1982 a young Michael Ross joins the legion of Canadian twenty-somethings backpacking in Europe. Through happenstance, he winds up working on a Kibbutz in Israel, where he falls in love with the land and its ancient, multi-layered history. He immerses himself in Israeli culture, converts to Judaism, and adopts his new country’s struggle for survival as his own, joining the Israel Defence Force and eventually Mossad’s most elite and storied covert-operations unit, Caesaria.

For seven-and-a-half years, Ross worked as an undercover agent — a classic spy. In The Volunteer, he describes his role in missions to foil attempts by Syria, Libya, and Iran to acquire advanced weapons technology. He tells of his part in the capture of three senior al Qaeda operatives who masterminded the 1998 attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; a joint Mossad-FBI operation that uncovered a senior Hezbollah terrorist based in the United States; and a mission to South Africa in which he intercepted Iranian agents seeking to expand their country’s military arsenal; and two-and-a-half years as Mossad’s Counterterrorism Liaison Officer to the CIA and FBI.

Many of the operations Ross describes have never before been revealed to the public.

My first face-to-face encounter with the entity the world now knows as al Qaeda began on Friday, August 7, 1998, the day the group detonated truck bombs outside U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 291 innocents, including 12 U.S. citizens, and injuring over 4,500 African bystanders. On August 7, I was at home in Israel, enjoying a rare day off, but soon after the blasts, my pager went off. It was an urgent request to call the Mossad’s 24/7 communications center. I checked in by phone, then raced to HQ in my tiny Renault, running up the two flights of stairs to the counterterrorism department.

There, I found Etti, an analyst in the “World Jihad” branch (known informally as the department of “awful Ahmeds”) and a few others studying the cable traffic from our liaison station in Nairobi. I noticed Etti had a cigarette going — despite the no-smoking policy at HQ, it was the sort of thing a tough old hand like Etti could get away with under these circumstances. She greeted me with her usual flurry of casual obscenities, and handed me a stack of reports that brought me up to speed.
— From The Volunteer


From the Hardcover edition. ... Read more