Volume 28, Number 6 · April 16, 1981
The Brave
By John Keegan
Self-Portrait of a Hero: The Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu, 1963-1976
with notes and an afterword by Benjamin Netanyahu, by Iddo Netanyahu
Random House, 304 pp., $12.95
Just before midnight of July 3/4, 1976, four Hercules transports of the Israeli Air Force landed without warning at Entebbe Airport, Uganda. They had flown the 2500 miles from their home bases nonstop and were carrying a force of Israeli commandos, a team of doctors, and a collection of assault vehicles. The oddest was a Mercedes, resprayed to resemble the presidential limousine of Field-Marshal Idi Amin. It was first off the lead aircraft and its occupants, blacked up as Uganda riflemen, were led by the commandos' senior officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Netanyahu.
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