Research

Books, Machal


(Non-Fiction, unless otherwise noted)


Barber, Rowland, The Midnighters, Crown Publishers, New York, 1970..

Bercuson, David Jay, The Secret Army, Lester & Orpen Dennys, Toronto, 1983, and Stein & Day, New York, 1984.

Burstein, Samuel, Rabbi with Wings, Herzl Press, New York, 1965.

Cull, Brian, with David Nicolle and Shlomo Aloni, Spitfires over Israel, Grub Street, London, 1990-1994.

Dunkelman, Ben, Dual Allegiance, Goodread Biographies, Halifax, 1984.

Greenspun, Hank, Where I Stand, David McKay Co., New York, 1966.

Heckelman, Joseph, American Volunteers and Israel’s War of Independence, Ktav Publishing House, New York, 1974.

Kaplansky, Eddy, The First Fliers, Israel Air Force Historical Branch, 1993.

Kurzman, Dan, Genesis 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War, De Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992.

Levett, Gordon, Flying under Two Flags, An Ex-RAF Pilot in Israel’s War of Independence, Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., London, 1994.

Lichtman, William, Between the Star and the Cross, Citadel Press, New York, 1957.

Livingston, Harold, The Coasts of the Earth, Houghton-Miflin, 1954. (Novel)

Livingston, Harold, No Trophy, No Sword: An American Volunteers in the Israel Air Force during the 1948 War of Independence, Edition Q, Chicago, 1994; paperback edition, Destination Israel, Gates & Bridges, Norwalk, 1998.

Marcovitzky, Yaacov, Machal, Overseas Volunteers in Israel’s War of Independence, English translation by Moshe Kohn, Israel Ministry of Information, Jerusalem, 2003;
Internet edition, 2004: www.machal2000.com/about/machal.pdf.

Ondra, Winona, Lonesome & Coping, Boyden Publishing, Pennsburg, PA, 1997.

Porath, Zipporah, Letters from Jerusalem 1947-1948, Assn. of Americans & Canadians in Israel, 1987.

Senior, Boris, My Life as a Fighter Pilot and a Founder of the Israel Air Force, Potomac Books, Dulles, VA, 2005.

Slater, Leonard, The Pledge, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1970.

Weiss, Craig and Jeffrey, I Am My Brother’s Keeper: American Volunteers in Israel’s War of Independence 1947-1949, Schiffer Military History, Atglen, PA, 1998.

Yonay, Ehud, No Margin for Error: the making of the Israel Air Force, Pantheon Books, New York, 1993.


Books, Aliyah Bet


(Non-Fiction, unless otherwise noted)


Cohen, Eugene, Rescue, Riverside Publishing Co., Rolling Meadows, IL, 1991.

Flaks, Samuel, Without Permission: Conversations, Letters, and Memoirs of Henry Mandel, Cherry Orchard Books, Boston, MA, 2021.

Grauel, John, Exodus 1947, an autobiography as told to Eleanor Elfenbein, Ivory House, New Jersey, 1983.

Greeenfield, Murray, and Joseph Hochstein, The Jews’ Secret Fleet, Gefen Publishers, Jerusalem and Hewlett, NJ, updated edition, 1999.

Hadari, Ze’ev Venia and Ze’ev Tsahor, Voyage to Freedom: An Episode in the Illegal Immigration to Palestine, Mitchell Valentine & Co., Totawa, NJ, 1985.

Liebrich, Fritz, Britain’s Naval and Political Reaction to the Illegal Immigration of Jews to Palestine, 1945-1948, Routledge, New York, 2005.

Mardor, Munya, Strictly Illegal, Robert Hale, London, 1957.

Naor, Mordechai, HaApala, Clandestine Immigration, Israel Ministry of Defence, Jerusalem, 1987.

Patzert, Rudolph, Running the Palestine Blockade: the Last Voyage of the Paducah, U.S. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 1994.

Silverstone, Paul, Our Only Refuge, Open the Gates! Clandestine Immigration to Palestine 1938-48, Paul Silverstone, 330 W. 58th Street, Apt. 9L, New York, NY 10019. See web site: Click here..

Yellin, Harriet Steuer, Hatkvah, Song of Hope, T&S Associates Inc., Phoenix, 1995.