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Recommended biography books (2)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into biography here are some biography books from Israel for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
Description:
Discover Amos Oz’s most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation *OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE* ‘A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant’ Simon Schama Amos Oz's remarkable, moving story takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s and into a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. Caught between them is one small boy with the weigh... continue

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My Country, My Life : Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace by Ehud Barak EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
Description:
In the summer of 2000, the most decorated soldier in Israel's history - Ehud Barak - set himself a challenge as daunting as any he had faced on the battlefield: to secure a final peace with the Palestinians. He would propose two states for two peoples, with a shared capital in Jerusalem. He knew the risks of failure. But he also knew the risks of not trying: letting slip perhaps the last chance for a generation to secure genuine peace. It was a moment of truth. It was one of many in a life intertwined, from the start, with that of Israel. Born on a kibbutz, Barak became commander of Israel's e... continue