No Margin For Error
The Making of the Israeli Air Force
ISBN: 0-
426 pages
Hardback
Ehud Yonay was an award-
US Navy fighter pilots was made into the movie ‘Top Gun’.
In ‘No Margin For Error’, he catalogues the history of the Israeli Air Force from its formation in 1948 as a handful of secondhand WW II light aircraft and a small international group of volunteer flyers, through to the sophisticated modern air force that carried out the audacious attack on the Osirak reactor in Iraq in 1981. Using interviews with scores of airmen and government leaders, citations from official archives, published memoirs and articles, and private diaries, Yonay describes how the Israelis created a potent air force that helped preserve the nation in its four wars, chief amongst which was the Six-
Written in a ‘boys own’ style that is often as cavalier and gung-
Naval Eight / 208 Squadron Association members will be most interested in Chapter 6: ‘Bloodying the RAF’ which describes, from an Israeli perspective, their infamous attack on 208 Squadron on 7 January 1949. An excerpt of this is included in the Spitfire / Hurricane / Lysander Anecdotal Histories section of this Website within Roy Bowie’s account of the period 1947 -
Click on the photo of the book cover above to read a PDF excerpt taken from Chapter 6, which describes the IAF’s encounter with 208 Squadron from their perspective.
Published by
Pantheon Books
A division of Random House Inc
New York
1st Edition 1993