Amos Amir Livres

Describes the early years of the Israeli Air Force – now one of the most efficient in the World.General Amos Amir's autobiography tells the story of the man, the warrior and the commander and the story of the struggling, newly-born Israeli Air Force. From the Six Days War of 1967 and onward, the IAF turned to be an extremely important component of the overall Israeli defense power. The years from the Sinai War in 1956, through the Six-Day-War, the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the Lebanon War in 1982, were the years of Amir's flying, fighting and commanding career.Amir tells his own story in talented, vivid and fluent language. He succeeds in pulling the reader into his narrow cockpit from the early stages of his flying school to later air combats and reconnaissance missions. Tense dogfights, long-range reconnaissance missions and memorable aerial episodes, including piloting a Phantom jet from the deck of the American carrier Kitty Hawk, are vividly described. The book reveals previously untold stories about the traumatic Yom Kippur War of 1973 and the early stages of the war in Lebanon in the 1982.

Or examines language, poetry, and relationships at the same time as he is writing the poem, so that it feels as if you are alive within the poem and watching the poem's developments, its relationship to reality, and its creative function. Utterly contemporary in form and theme, it opens new horizons for poetry in any language.

[Amir Or] is a poet who dares, in our time, to mention the 'soul.' He is a poet whose awareness of Old Testament poetry rings easily and true, like water echoing in the heart of a cove. . . . This is a poetry of note, a work to be taken seriously and spread around, a poet who bestrides several traditions with seeming ease, a special contribution to world poetry.-John F. Deane, from the Afterword