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Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316004014
ISBN-139780316004015
eBay Product ID (ePID)1550492
Product Key Features
Book TitleBest of Enemies : Memoirs of Bassam Abu-Sharif and Uzi Mahnaimi
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1995
TopicMiddle East / General
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorBassam Abu-Sharif, Uzi Mahnaimi
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight10.6 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN95-077465
TitleLeadingThe
SynopsisNo one knows more about modern terrorism - its impetus, its technology, its secrets, its inevitable tragedy - than Bassam Abu-Sharif, a former Palestinian guerrilla, and Uzi Mahnaimi, a former Israeli spymaster. These two men, whose personal histories epitomize the struggle over Israel, were supreme practitioners of the vicious tactics characterizing the Arab-Israeli conflict. Now in a riveting double memoir, Abu-Sharif and Mahnaimi reveal life on opposing sides of the world's most bitter feud, and how they ultimately turned a cycle of violence into a search for peace. Bassam Abu-Sharif and Uzi Mahnaimi finally met in a London restaurant in 1988, many years after they both - for very different reasons - turned away from violence. In this strange meeting lies the heart of Best of Enemies. Their stories, and those of their fathers and grandfathers, encapsulate one hundred years of war between Arab and Jew. Unlike their predecessors, however, Abu-Sharif and Mahnaimi have joined forces in a new and more testing struggle: the fight for peace. Their quiet collaboration has steadily helped move the peace negotiations forward and set the stage for the Arafat-Rabin handshake of 1993.