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Golan!: A novel about Israel's next war
What if the worst DID happen? Imagine the Yom Kippur War with a nuclear twist. Jihadist armies bent on destroying Israel attack during the 8-day Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Iran explodes nuclear missiles in the stratosphere high above Israel. The resulting electromagnetic pulse (EMP) immediately blacks out all electrical power, disables every unprotected microchip and logic circuit; and catapaults most of the Middle East back to the pre-electronics age. The combined armies of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt - along with private militias and armed looters - attack immediately, having sheltered most of their equipment in EMP-proof bunkers. Israel is poorly prepared for the onslaught, having seriously underestimated the EMP threat, and pays a steep price in the first desperate days of the Sukkot War.
Israel's soldiers, citizens and reservists dig in and fight back with courage, resourcefulness, creativity and chutzpah.
Israel's soldiers, citizens and reservists dig in and fight back with courage, resourcefulness, creativity and chutzpah.
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520 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 7, 2010
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October 30, 2011
What would you do if you were a middle eastern despot and had one atomic bomb, with no hope of ever getting another?
Nuke Tel Aviv? New York? London? Washington? In 1991, Tom Clancy nuked the Superbowl (The Sum Of All Fears). This is 2011, and the world is a different place.
How many electronic devices do you use in a day? Obviously, you have a computer, probably you have an iPod/iPhone/iPad or something similar. You have a cell phone or a land-line one and even if the your phone was made in the 1960's, it's connected to a computerized switching center.
Don't forget to count all of those things with computers in them that you don't even think are computerized. From your TV set, to your microwave oven, from your car to alarm clock. Some of them don't even have a computer in them, they just use simple electronics, such as an LED flashlight or a CFL.
Everything is electronically controlled, even the electricity that powers your life, the water you drink, wash with, etc and gas if you have it to heat your home. If it comes in a box, a bottle, a jar or a tank, it got there because some computer somewhere controlled producing, packaging and delivering it.
Now it's here and you take them for granted. Suddenly they are all gone. What happened? The despot with the bomb set it off high in the sky, causing an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), which killed all of the electronics. No Silicon Heaven for them, just total silence.
Such an EMP would blind half of the US, in Golan! it blinds Israel, and most of the middle east. That's just the beginning, all of those waiting to get a crack at Israel were in on it and ready.
That's just the first chapter.
Once you get over the shock, Golan! is well thought out, well researched, the characters are well developed. Not only will you keep reading because it's entertaining, you'll keep reading because you want to know what happens next and to whom.
IMHO just as good as Clancy was when he wrote the Jack Ryan series, and a lot better than what he became.
Nuke Tel Aviv? New York? London? Washington? In 1991, Tom Clancy nuked the Superbowl (The Sum Of All Fears). This is 2011, and the world is a different place.
How many electronic devices do you use in a day? Obviously, you have a computer, probably you have an iPod/iPhone/iPad or something similar. You have a cell phone or a land-line one and even if the your phone was made in the 1960's, it's connected to a computerized switching center.
Don't forget to count all of those things with computers in them that you don't even think are computerized. From your TV set, to your microwave oven, from your car to alarm clock. Some of them don't even have a computer in them, they just use simple electronics, such as an LED flashlight or a CFL.
Everything is electronically controlled, even the electricity that powers your life, the water you drink, wash with, etc and gas if you have it to heat your home. If it comes in a box, a bottle, a jar or a tank, it got there because some computer somewhere controlled producing, packaging and delivering it.
Now it's here and you take them for granted. Suddenly they are all gone. What happened? The despot with the bomb set it off high in the sky, causing an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), which killed all of the electronics. No Silicon Heaven for them, just total silence.
Such an EMP would blind half of the US, in Golan! it blinds Israel, and most of the middle east. That's just the beginning, all of those waiting to get a crack at Israel were in on it and ready.
That's just the first chapter.
Once you get over the shock, Golan! is well thought out, well researched, the characters are well developed. Not only will you keep reading because it's entertaining, you'll keep reading because you want to know what happens next and to whom.
IMHO just as good as Clancy was when he wrote the Jack Ryan series, and a lot better than what he became.
March 13, 2012
I was looking for a new book to read on my Kindle when I came across Golan! by Edward Truitt. After reading a short description, I decided to buy it. I loved it! I loved the characters, the writing, the story...everything. And most of all I loved that it was clever. Bravo. Long enough to get friendly with the characters and not too long to get bored. A great story. I hope it never happens but if it does I bet there are people just like these characters...at least I hope so. Can't wait to read more by this author!
March 30, 2011
This is a "what if?" book about what would happen if Iran made a preemptive electronic/nuclear (EMP) strike on Israel in the near future. Having set up the scenario and imagining how it might play out in the Golan, I spend the next 450 pages getting Israel through it. Let me know what you think of my book.
September 14, 2011
Actually proofing it for the next edition... typo reports are welcome.
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October 9, 2011Starting to really sink my teeth into this. It's an exciting read!
January 28, 2014
This book does not spend much time on my bookshelves as I am constantly picking it up to reread. Wonderful story with wonderful characters.
July 11, 2022
A marvellous story
My twin brother and I worked at the Ashdod Yackov Ichud kibbutz just south of the Kinneret for six months in 1969
They were the best times of our lives and changed our lives forever
This story tells everything as it really was, with the Israeli’s teamwork to work things out together a sight to behold. We aren’t Jewish but they welcomed ou with open arms.
I recommend this book to anyone that wants to get an insight of just how hard they work together
My twin brother and I worked at the Ashdod Yackov Ichud kibbutz just south of the Kinneret for six months in 1969
They were the best times of our lives and changed our lives forever
This story tells everything as it really was, with the Israeli’s teamwork to work things out together a sight to behold. We aren’t Jewish but they welcomed ou with open arms.
I recommend this book to anyone that wants to get an insight of just how hard they work together
June 1, 2021
A fine military adventure to read during Israel’s trying times.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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