Author: Aaron J. Klein
Translator: Il-yoon Moon
Publisher: Golden Owl
324 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
The first full account, based on access to key players who have never before
spoken, of the Munich Massacre and the Israeli response - a lethal, top secret,
thirty-year-long antiterrorism campaign to track down the killers.
1972. The Munich Olympics. Palestinian members of the Black September group
murder eleven Israeli athletes. Nine hundred million people watch the crisis
unfold on television, witnessing a tragedy that inaugurates the modern age of
terror and remains a scar on the collective conscience of the world.
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, code named Caesarea, 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.
Award-winning journalist Aaron Klein’s incisive and riveting account tells for
the first time the full story of Munich and the Israeli counterterrorism
operation it spawned. With unprecedented access to Mossad agents and an
unparalleled knowledge of Israeli intelligence, Klein peels back the layers of
myth and misinformation that have permeated previous books, films, and magazine
articles about the “shadow war” against Black September and other terrorist
groups.
Spycraft, secret diplomacy, and fierce detective work abound in a story with
more drama than any fictional thriller. Burning questions are at last answered,
including who was killed and who was not, how it was done, which targets were
hit and which were missed. Truths are revealed: the degree to which the Mossad
targeted nonaffiliated Black September terrorists for assassination, the length
and full scope of the operation (far greater than previously suspected),
retributive acts against Israel, and much more.
Finally, Klein shows that the Israeli response to Munich was not simply about
revenge, as is popularly believed. By illuminating the tactical and strategic
purposes of the Israeli operation, Striking Back allows us to draw profoundly
relevant lessons from one of the most important counterterrorism campaigns in
history.
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