{"product_id":"out-of-the-sky-heroism-and-rebirth-in-nazi-europe","title":"Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe by Matti Friedman","description":"\u003cp\u003eWas it one of the war’s most memorable feats of valor or an act of desperation, even madness?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsing thousands of original documents from once-secret files, manuscripts, memoirs, and unpublished letters, Matti Friedman follows four of the parachutists from the spring of 1944 to the operation’s dramatic end that winter. In Out of the Sky, he tells the gripping and surprising tale of a forgotten moment, demonstrating how storytelling itself can have a power even greater than warfare. And in exploring the line between myth and reality, heroism and futility, he creates an argument that has resonance in our own time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMATTI FRIEDMAN is an award-winning journalist and author. His work has appeared in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Free Press, The Atlantic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTablet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and elsewhere. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and have won the Natan Prize, the Canadian Jewish Book Award, the Sami Rohr Prize, and the ALA's Sophie Brody Medal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spiegel \u0026 Grau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47898287800485,"sku":"9781954118980","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/8860\/9445\/files\/9781954118980.jpg?v=1781019696","url":"https:\/\/www.israelbookshop.com\/products\/out-of-the-sky-heroism-and-rebirth-in-nazi-europe","provider":"IsraelBookShop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}