BIBLIOGRAPHY UPDATED FROM THE ONE SHOWN ON THE MACHAL BOOKLET Updated 14/10/21
Alon, Yigal. Shield of David. U.S.A.: Random House, 1970
Aloni, Shlomo. 101 Israel Air Force: First Fighter Squadron. Israel: IsraDecal
Publications, 2007
Avriel, Ehud. Open the Gates. New York. Atheneum Publishing, 1975
Barahona, Renato. The Odyssey of the Ship with Three Names. Reno. Center for Basque
Studies, University of Nevada, Reno. 2014.
Barber, Rowland. The Midnighters. New York: Crown Publishers, 1970 -based Martin Allen Ribakoff’s memoirs and which can be purchased from Amazon.
Bar-Zohar, Michael. Ben-Gurion –The Armed Prophet. New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc., 1966
Barahona, Renato. The Odyssey of the Ship with Three Names. USA, The Centre for Basque Studies 2014
Baskin, Sol. Mosaic of a Lifetime. Israel: Total Print Ltd., 2007
Ben-Ami, Yitzhak. Years of Wrath, Days of Glory. New York: Robert Speller & Sons, 1982
Bercuson, David Jay. The Secret Army. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1983, and New York: Stein and Day, 1984
Bethell, Nicholas. The Palestine Triangle. London: Andre Deutsch, and New York: G.P. Puttnam’s Sons, 1979
Bierman, John. Odyssey. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984
Burstein, Samuel. Rabbi with Wings. New York: Herzl Press, 1964. Israel: New edition, 2006
Cailingold, Asher. An Unlikely Heroine. London: Valentine Mitchell, 2000
Chertoff, Mordechai S. The State is Born, a Personal Memoir. Jerusalem: 2010 Mordechai.c@gmail.com, Neve Shulamit, Koreh Hadarot 27, Jerusalem 93387
Cohen, Eugene. Rescue (Aliyah Bet). Rolling Meadows: Riverside Publishing Co., 1991
Collins, Larry, and Lapierre Dominique. O Jerusalem! New York: Simon & Shuster, 1972
Cull, Brian and Aloni, Shlomo, with Nicolle, David. Spitfires over Israel. London: Grub Street Publishing, 1990-1994
Dahms, Evelyn McDaniel. Gutsy Guys and Rattletrap Planes that Helped save a Nation. U.S.A.: iUniverse Inc., 2005
Dahms, Evelyn McDaniel. Goyim – What’s a Nice Guy Doing in a War like This. U.S.A.: iUniverse Inc., 1991
Dunkelman, Ben. Dual Allegiance. Halifax: Goodread Biographies, 1984
Elia, Arie L. Voyage of the Ulua. U.S.A.: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969
Fenton, D. Jason. Volunteers in the War of Independence. U.S.A.: D. Jason Fenton 1995, drjason1@cox.net (also available as CD Rom)
Fenton, D. Jason. Strength and Courage, the Untold Story of the Machal Volunteers who helped win Israel’s War of Independence. U.S.A.: 2009
www.strengthandcouragethebook.com
Friedler, Yacov. A Long Way Round (the story of a youth unusually spent).
Gandt, Robert. Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel,
http://www.airspacemag.com/as-interview/israel-first-air-force-180964757/
Gerstl, Hugo. Against All Odds – The Magnificent Trio that built the Israel Air Force, Tel Aviv: Dekel Publishing House, 2013
Golan, Aviezer. The War of Independence. Tel Aviv: OT Press, 1974
Gorn, Lester H. The Anglo-Saxons. New York: Sagamore Press, 1958
Grauel, John. Grauel: an Autobiography as told to Eleanor Elfenbein. New Jersey: Ivory House, 1982
Greenspun, Hank. Where I Stand. New York: David McKay Co., 1966
Grunfeld, Benny. A Teenager in Hitler’s Death Camps. Dallas: Benbella Books, 2009
Gunston, Bill. Israeli Air Force. Tel Aviv: Steimatsky Agency Ltd. THE ONLY RECORD I COULD FIND OF THIS BOOK BEGAN WITH THE WORDS ‘AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE…’ AND WAS PUBLISHED ABROAD, SO I DON’T KNOW IF THIS IS ANOTHER ONE, OR NOT.
Habas, Bracha. The Gate Breakers. Israel: Herzl Press, 1963
Hadari, Zeev with Tsahor, Zeev. Voyage to Freedom: An Episode in the Illegal Immigration to Palestine. London and Totowa: Vallentine Mitchell, 1985
Heckelman, Joseph. American Volunteers and Israel’s War of Independence. New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1974
Hochstein, Joseph and Greenfield, Murray S. The Jews’ Secret Fleet. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House. New York: Hewlett (updated, 1999) I WASN’T ABLE TO FIND ANY TRACE OF HEWLETT IN CONNECTION WITH THIS BOOK
Kaplan, Cyril. In Three Wars (a Personal and Orthopaedic Perspective). Bloomington: Xlibris Corporation, 2008 (www.xlibris.com or www.amazon.com)
Kaplansky, Eddy. The First Fliers. Israel Air Force Historical Branch, 1993
Katzew, Henry. South Africa’s 800: The Story of South African Volunteers in Israel’s War of Independence. Tel-Aviv: Israel: Telfed, 1997 (3rd edition 2003)
Kimche, Jon and David. The Secret Road. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1955
Kluger, Ruth and Mann, Peggy. The Last Escape. New York: Doubleday, 1973
Kurzman, Dan. Genesis 1948. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992
Laub, Morris. Last Barrier to Freedom. Berkeley: Magnes Museum, 1985
Levett, Gordon. Flying under Two Flags: An ex-RAF Pilot in Israel’s War of Independence. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1994
Levin, Aaron. Testament: At the Creation of the State of Israel. New York: Artisan Press, 1998
Lichtman, William. Between the Star and the Cross. (1st edition.) New York: Citadel Press, 1957
Liebrich, Fritz. Britain’s Naval and Political Reaction to the Illegal Immigration of Jews to Palestine, 1945-1948. New York: Routledge, 2005
Livingston, Harold. The Coasts of the Earth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954
Livingston, Harold. Mission Impossible. Stamford: Stamford University Libraries, 1981, 1982
Livingston, Harold. No Trophy, No Sword, an American Volunteer in the Israel Air Force during the 1948 War of Independence. Chicago: Edition Q, 1994. Softcover edition: Destination Israel. Norwalk: Gates & Bridges, 1998
Lorch, Netanel. Israel’s War of Independence, 1947-1948. New York: Hartmore House Inc., 1961
Lowenstein, Ralph. Bring My Sons from Far, a Novel of the Israel War. Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co. (1966 paperback edition)
Lowenstein, Ralph. A Time of War. New York: Lancer Books 1971, 2nd edition 1973
McDonald, James G. My Mission in Israel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1951
Macarov, David. A Small Cog – Tales from my two Wars, Self Published Israel 2014
David.Macarov@mail.huji.ac.il
Mardor, Munya M. Strictly Illegal. London: Robert Hale, 1957
Mardor, Munya M. Haganah. New York: New American Library, 1957
Naor, Mordechai, Ha’Ha’apala, Clandestine Immigration. Jerusalem: Israel Ministry of Defense, 1987
Narboni, Charlotte, When I Grow Up, I want to be…(the memoir of Gino Narboni).
Ingram Sparks, 2013, second edition 2014. http://www.whenigrowupginonarboni.com
Ondra, Winona Hollar. Lonesome & Coping: Pennsburg: Boyden Publishing, 1997
Patzert, Rudolph W. Running the Palestine Blockade: The Last Voyage of the “Paducah.” Ramsbury: Airlife Publishing, 1994
Porath, Zipporah. Letters from Jerusalem 1947-1948. Jerusalem: Association of
Americans & Canadians in Israel (AACI), 1987. 4th edition – Jonathan Publications, 2008. (e-mail: zip@netvision.net.il / jporath@mac.com)
Porath, Zipporah. Col. David (Mickey) Marcus “A soldier for all humanity.” New
York: American Veterans of Israel Legacy Corp. (AVILC) & American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), 2010 (email: jporath@mac.com)
Rifkin, Shepard. What Ship? Where Bound? New York: Knopf, 1961
Rubinstein, Murray and Goldman, Richard Martin. The Israeli Air Force Story.
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1979
Sachs, Rabbi Moshe B. Under Siege and After: Life in Jerusalem 1947-1949. Jerusalem: Dr. Moshe Sachs, 2006 (email: mbsachs@hotmail.com)
Schutzman N. Norman, My Personal Relationship with Israel, USA, Self-published 2015.
schutzmand@verizon.net
Shachar, David. From the Holocaust to a New Dawn. Israel: Gefen Publishing House, 2011
Silverstone, Paul. Our Only Refuge, Open the Gates! Clandestine Immigration to Palestine 1938-48. New York: Paul Silverstone, 330 W. 58th Street, Apt. 9L, NY 10019
Slater, Leonard. The Pledge. New York: Simon & Shuster, 1970
Spicehandler, Daniel. Let my Right Hand Wither. New York: The Beechcraft Press, 1950
Stone, I.F. Underground to Palestine. New York: Pantheon Press, 1946
Szulc, Tad. The Secret Alliance. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1991
Teperson, David. The Volunteer. Israel: David Teperson, 1997
Weiss, Craig and Weiss, Jeffrey. I am My Brother’s Keeper: American Volunteers in Israel’s War of Independence 1947-1949. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing, 1998
Weizman, Ezer. On Eagles’ Wings: the Personal Story of the Leading Commander of the Israeli Air Force. New York: MacMillan Publishers, 1977 (1st American edition)
Wilson R.D. Cordon and Search. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1949
Yellin, Harriet Steure. Hatikvah, Song of Hope. Phoenix: T & S Associates Inc., 1995
Yofe, Alex and Nyveen, Lawrence. Avia S-199 in Israel Air Force Service 1948-1950. San Jose: White Crow Publications
(http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=WC6271)
Yofe, Alex. Spitfire Mk. IX in the Israel Air Force Service 1948-1956. San Jose: White Crow Publications
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Yonay, Ehud. No Margin for Error: The Making of the Israel Air Force. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993 (1st edition)
BOOKLETS
FOCUS / Machal Overseas Volunteers, published by the Israel Information Center, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. English and French, May 1999.
MACHAL / OVERSEAS VOLUNTEERS IN ISRAEL’S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 1948-49, published by World Machal. 2003, English.
VIDEO CASSETTES, TAPE CASSETTES, DVDs
They Were All We Had ‒ The Birth of the Israel Air Force. Directed by Jonathan Paz. Israel. Video. Two versions: 43 min. and 82 min., English, 1986/87.
Boshes & Kaplansky ‒ Two Machal fliers, an American and a Canadian, talk
with their 1948 Air Force squadron commander. Video clip, 7 min., English,
1995.
Machal: JM Compagnie. Jean-Philippe Reza, Director, France. Film on Machal for French TV. Video and DVD available. English and French, 1998.
Air Force video and DVD by Amos Cohen ‒ Hebrew.
http://www.fisher.org.il//Video/Machal.htm
Israel’s War of Independence, Canada’s Volunteers – Promises to Keep. Storeway Productions with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Directed by David Harel, Canada. Video, 49 min., English, 1987.
IAF 1948-1949, the story of the pre-Israel Air Force with Machal volunteers. Produced for the South African Zionist Federation, Israel, by David Goldstein, directed and photographed by Yechiel Ne’eman, with introduction by Ezer Weizman. Participants include Ezer Weizman, Boris Senior, Ralph Futerman, Dan Tolkowsky and Myra and Smoky Simon. Video, 25 min., English, circa 1978.
Volunteers of Valour 1948. ESRA (English Speaking Residents Association). Directed by Hilary Gatoff, Israel. Video on Machal for Israel Television. 15 min., video and DVD available, English, 1998.
Machal Jubilee Reunion, 1948-1998. Video film, DVD available, 120 min., English, 1998.
Amutat Hativat 8 Ledoroteha. The 8th Brigade in Israel’s War of Independence. Produced by Naftali Arbel and Zvi Elnatan. Video, Hebrew.
Tales of the Gun: Guns of History. History Channel, U.S.A. Video, English (PAL), DVD available.
The Myth, Memory, and Battle of Latrun. KCET, U.S.A. Video, English.
Clear Skies, the Story of the Israel Air Force. Doko Media, 33 Hayetzira Street, Ramat Gan 52521. Video.
Tkuma: The First 50 Years. Israel Broadcasting Authority. 3 video cassettes, Hebrew, 1998.
In our Own Hands ‒ Jewish Brigade. U.S.A. Video television documentary.
www.psifulfillment.com/orderform.asp?ID=010 (Chuck Olin Associates Inc.)
Is Jerusalem Burning: Latrun. Olin Films, Chicago. Video, .60 min., English.
www.psifulfillment.com/orderform.asp?ID=010
Ceremony at Latrun commemorating 60 years of the victory over Nazi Germany. Video,
9th May 2005.
Israel’s Forgotten Heroes. Frances Hernandez, Program Administration Coordinator, WPBT channel 2. 14901 NE 20th Avenue, Miami, FL 33181. Tel: 3050-949-8321. E-mail: Frances_Berrios@wpbt 40 min., English. IS THE AREA CODE CORRECT?
MAHAL. Les volontaires de l’etranger. A film by Didier Martiny, Zanger Films, France.
DVD available. (www.cirf.org) French, 1998-2005.
World Machal. Interview on Israel Radio’s Reshet Alef. Eliahu Ben-On
interviews Machal veterans Sol Baskin, Shmuel Recanati, Zipporah Porath and David “Migdal” Teperson. 60 mins., Hebrew. June 1, 2006.
Finnish Machal. A film produced in Helsinki by the IDF. Finnish, 40 minutes, 1992.
We Witnessed the Rebirth of Israel 1948-1998. Produced by Sylvia Franklin. On
the 50th anniversary of the state, Joshua and Goldie Stanford and others tell the story of their participation in Israel’s War of Independence., Oregon Israel Jubilee Committee. 40 mins., English, 1998.
Waves of Freedom. Documentary by British-Israeli film-maker Alan Rosenthal
recounts how 27 Americans (most of them Jewish) ferried 1,500 Holocaust refugees from several European ports to Palestine in 1947 aboard a refitted U.S. coastguard cutter called the “Trade Winds.” Archive footage is integrated with recent interviews with some of the volunteers who manned the ships. English, 2008.
“804.” Pulp Films production on South Africa’s 804 volunteers in the War of
Independence. Interviews and photographs with South African Machalniks worldwide who recount their stories of their voluntary participation in Israel’s War of Independence. www.804.co.za English, 2011.
My Brother’s Keeper. Produced by Cinema Angels. Interviews, photographs and
narrative with Machalniks. Ira.a.feinberg@gmail.com 973-751-1100 English, 2010.
The Bond, Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. Narrated by Gregory Peck, video.
The Israel Air Force 1948. Produced by Aaron Finkel, Video.
101 Squadron and Air Transport Command Personnel. Video.
Air Force and Hawk. Two-hour video.
“Exodus 1947.” Narrated by Morley Safer, written, directed and produced by
Elizabeth Rodgers and Robby Henson. DVD.
Arthur – Seventy-Five Years of Action. About Arthur Goldberg, Canadian Machal.
DVD.
Machal Memorial Dedication Ceremony Stanley Medicks, DVD. 1993.
Machal Memorial – Yitzhak Rabin Speech. DVD. April 1993.
Jack Cohen film. DVD.
BBC Radio: The Secret Warriors. Interviews with British Machalniks Stanley
Medicks, Vidal Sassoon, and others, by David Ceserani, DVD.
Machal Evening. Los Altos, U.S.A. DVD. January 2012.
World Machal Yom Hazicharon. DVD – video. 25th April 2012.
World Machal Yom Hazicharon. DVD – photographs. 25th April 2012.
Beit Hatfutsot interview with Stanley Medicks. DVD. 2011
Interviews for IDF Historical Department. Eddy Kaplansky with Zippy Porath (3),
Myra Simon (29.9.2005), Smoky Simon and Eddy Kaplansky. 3rd March 2004)
World Machal Yom Hazicharon service (2011) and Derek Bowden’s 90th Birthday,
2012. DVD.
Norman Spiro’s photos. DVD.