Hello everyone, happy Monday! It’s the last Monday of May… where did May go?! Man this month just whizzed by! Today I’m going to be reviewing Saul David’s book Operation Thunderbolt.

Operation Thunderbolt by: Saul David: On June 2, 1976 Arab and German terrorists hijacked an Air France plane that was going from Tel Aviv to Paris. They diverted the plane to Entebbe, Uganda where they wanted the release of over fifty, what they call, freedom fighters who are jailed in Europe, Kenya and Israel; in return they would release the 253 hostages. This was definitely quite the story. David told this story in grave detail, so much detail that it began to sound like a textbook of facts. He is very good at what he does being a military historian, but this book may not appeal to everyone. This very heavily dealt with politics, and gave a really detailed look into the hijacking. David does make the reader feel something because the reader reads about the hostages and you start to sympathize with them and that was a factor that made this book so captivating, especially to someone who is not so politically inclined. David’s writing is very diplomatic, and at times would lose his reader a bit with a lot of the factual political jargon. Overall, this was eye opening, but is really geared towards people who like political science and the likes of those genres.