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  • Against All Odds: The Magnificent Trio That Built the Israeli Air Force

  • By: Hugo N. Gerstl
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
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Against All Odds: The Magnificent Trio That Built the Israeli Air Force

By: Hugo N. Gerstl
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1947 – The UN declares that the British Mandate over Palestine will come to an end. In May 1948 Israel and Arab Palestine will be divided into two independent states. The Arab world reacts immediately: There will be no Jewish state; it will be driven into the sea! Sixty-five million Arabs against six hundred thousand Israeli Jews. Britain has washed its hands of the problem. The United States, under the guise of the Neutrality Act, makes it a felony for any American to supply either side with any arms.
Americans Al Schwimmer, Hank Greenspun, and Charlie Winters boldly defy the Neutrality Act and risk convictions by purchasing twenty-three former Nazi Messerschmitt Bf-109s in Czechoslovakia, painting out the swastikas on the tails with Jewish stars of David, and smuggling them to Israel; founding a “Panamanian” airline and flying seven large aircraft out of Panama “to do an aerial survey,” but never returning; securing a huge cache of ammunition from a sympathetic junk dealer in Hawaii; smuggling weapons to Mexico on a hijacked yacht, and ultimately shipping them “to Nationalist China” – via Israel.
Stripped of most of their rights as US citizens, Schwimmer is recruited to start a small aircraft maintenance plant in Israel, which will become Israel Aircraft Industries, a billion-dollar-a-year operation; Greenspun purchases a defunct newspaper, which he turns into the Las Vegas Sun and is among the first to call witch-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy to account; Winters returns to importing and exporting fruit and diamonds between Israel and the United States.
After the 1967 Six-Day War, when France reneges on its commitment to sell Israel fifty advanced fighter jets, the trio manages to “steal” plans from a friendly engineer in Geneva. Within six months Israel turns out its own homegrown Mach 2 fighter aircraft. And that’s just the beginning.
International best-selling author Hugo N. Gerstl has crafted a tantalizing, rewarding, magnificently readable tour de force based on the true life stories of three of Israel’s most unheralded heroes, cementing and enhancing his reputation as a master storyteller.
Novels: Scribe (International Best Seller) • The Motherland Saga in three volumes: Legacy, Emergence, and Coming of Age. The Motherland Saga is also available in an Anthology Edition: Legacy – The Birth of Modern Turkey • The Deathmaster • ChildFinders • Oldies But Goodies Show • Amazing Grace (International Best Seller) • Billy Jenkins • Against All Odds (International Best Seller) • Assassin (International Best Seller) • Arcade • The Wrecking Crew (International Best Seller) • Skorzeny – Dancing With the Devil • Stalemate. • Coming Soon: The Good Brother – The trial of Albert Goring • Set Rome Afire – The story of the First Pope John XXIII • The Danube.
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