This book purports to be the true life tale of an Israeli Counter-Terror team. I have no idea whether it is mostly true, or mostly fiction. The interesting thing for me is the nature of the task that the team has to undertake, and that this task forces them to think about their lives and why they do what they do. I guess that's one of the differences between an assasin and a soldier-the assasin has time for self-examination.

These are the memoirs of Countess Karolina Lanckoronska written in 1946 and covering the years of the war. It is interesting, and a bit troubling. It is troubling because she is (was, I don't know if she's still alive) a Catholic Polish nationalist. So some of her comments are disparaging towards Ukrainians, who are portrayed as the worst ethnic group during the war. And while trying to exonorate herself of the curse of anti-semitism, she proves she possesses this flaw several times. She was in prison for most of the war, and her reason for writing the memoir was to provide evidence against an SS man, Kruger, for the murder of 175 Polish professors. But, he was never charged with this crime because he was serving multiple life sentences for the murder of thousands of jews. That is the problem with the whole book, is that she fails to see it as a human tragedy, she views it as another in the long struggle for Polish freedom. Another interesting thing about the book that I should mention is the fact it talks about the Soviet Invasion of Poland in 1939 which no one ever seems to remember, and shows the affect of the other great tyranny of that age.