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Striking Back
- The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
Back in Israel, Prime Minister Golda Meir vows to track down those responsible and, in Menachem Begin's words, "run these criminals and murderers off the face of the earth". A secret Mossad unit is mobilized, a list of targets drawn up. Thus begins the Israeli response, a mission that unfolds not over months but over decades. The Mossad has never spoken about this operation. No one has known the real story. Until now.
In this riveting account, Aaron Klein peels back the layers of myth and misinformation about the "shadow war" against Black September and other terrorist groups.
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- Audie Award Finalist, Non-Fiction, Unabridged, 2007
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Kaz
- 04-11-21
Excellent
Exceptionally interesting book outlining the efforts of the Israeli intelligence services to avenge the Munich massacre.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Ali
- 13-11-12
Something of a let down
For a book called Striking Back I am surpised to say when the book focused on the Mossad assassinations it lossed its narrative cohesion. By contrast the first third of book about the Munich Massacre is superb and you can really tell that Klein is passionate about the subject.
All in all good but not great, might have been four star if Rudnicki's narration hadn't started to sound like he was bored of the book around half way through.
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- Anonymous User
- 31-08-18
Thrilling and Riveting
Solid and passionate narration gives life to a thrilling historical tale regarding terrorist attacks, covert assassinations and foreign espionage. Provides an in depth view of the operations of the Israeli Defense Forces and their Palestinian counterparts.
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- PaulC6230
- 21-11-22
A Great Account
This audiobook is a great account of the Munich Olympic massacre and the Mossads history of getting revenge on the players of the massacre. The narration was ok, didn’t hate it but didn’t love it.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Kindle Customer
- 07-08-21
Well researched but too emotive
Klein has done his homework with this well researched account. My main reservation is that he lets his anger at the terrible events of Munich taint his journalism. There's no need to tell us that the German police were incompetent for instance, the facts speak for themselves. There's also an editing glitch as the narrator repeats a sentence.
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- G
- 21-03-14
not balanced at all
This is completely one-sided. It is a glorification of the Israeli secret services of the nineteen-seventies (referred to as "warriors" and "combatants"). The Palestinian opposition is portrayed as vainglorious and hateful. Third parties like France and Germany are depicted as cowardly. The notion that extra-judicial killings carried out in other sovereign nations might be wrong does not seem to cross the author's mind.
So, if you like the idea of a biased historical account of how teams of hitmen went around killing opponents, with all the planning, build-up, and execution of operations involved, you'll like this.
Actually, I quite enjoyed it.
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