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Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe

Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe

Friedman, Matti

Hardcover

General World HistoryIsrael & Palestine HistoryWorld War II

Publisher Price: $29.00

ISBN10: 1954118988
ISBN13: 9781954118980
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: Mar 24 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

Winner of the Natan Fund Notable Book Award

Was it one of the war's most memorable feats of valor or an act of desperation, even madness?

In Out of the Sky, Matti Friedman unravels one of the strangest episodes of World War II: In 1944, a team of young women and men who had escaped the Holocaust made the inconceivable choice to parachute back into Nazi-occupied Europe under the cover of a British military operation. Yet by the end of the mission, not a single Nazi was harmed and not a single Jew was saved, and many of the parachutists died in the process. Even so, some of their names would become legendary, especially that of twenty-three-year-old Hannah Senesh, the author of the beloved Hebrew song Eli, Eli. Their story would become one of the young state of Israel's founding myths--but what exactly was the mission, and what had the parachutists actually accomplished? What made them heroes?

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