UNSPOKEN ALLIANCE, THE(ISBN=) 英文原版

Sasha Polakow-Suransky is an editor at The New York Times op-ed
page. He was a senior editor at Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2011
and holds a doctorate in modern history from Oxford University,
where he was a Rhodes Scholar from 2003 to 2006. His writing has
appeared in The American Prospect, The Boston Globe, The
International Herald Tribune, The New Republic, and Newsweek. He
lives in Brooklyn.

“A hugely impressive book. . . . Groundbreaking.”
—Newsweek

“Important. . . . The best-documented, most thorough, and most
credible account ever offered of the secret marriage between the
apartheid state and Israel.”
—Foreign Policy
 
“Tantalizing. . . . Stands out because of the new material its
author has dug up, which may be deemed to provide a measure of
insight into ongoing and tricky proliferation issues.”
—The New York Review of Books
 
“Rich with intrigue and shocking details but written without a
trace of stridency, [this] is the most authoritative account to
date. . . . A meticulously researched book that reads like a spy
thriller.”
—The Nation
 
“Fascinating. . . . Deft and fair. . . . A well-crafted work of
history, not to be mistaken for another jeremiad. . . . A tale of
clandestine missions, surreptitious shipments, and elaborate
political theater between two states perched precariously on the
margins of both their continents and the Cold War.”
—The National Review

“A harrowing account of a Mephistophelian bargain between two rogue
states, told with indisputable fact—many of them new—and
on-the-record interviews. No moralizing needed. Israel’s
twenty-year collaboration with South Africa betrayed its founding
principles and, more tragically, anticipated the cynicism with
which it conducts its Palestinian policy today.”
—Seymour Hersh
 
“A compelling history. . . . All states engage in secret diplomacy,
but Israel offers some of the most shocking examples. . . .
Although he deplores Israel’s ties to the apartheid regime,
Polakow-Suransky has treated the handful of officials in the two
countries implementing that alliance fairly, even
empathetically.”
—Foreign Affairs
 
“A deft, pacy and revealing account. . . . Admirably
dispassionate.”
—The Economist
 
“The extent to which these two countries began to rely on each
other economically and militarily in the mid-1970s through the late
1980s has never been so fully fleshed out. . . . There are some
striking revelations.”
—Forward
 
“A careful, painful, hugely important book.”
—Peter Beinart, author of The Icarus Syndrome
 
“Provocative. . . . Richly detailed. . . . Especially relevant
today, as nuclear rivalries escalate in the Middle East, because it
explains—calmly, methodically, and with full documentation—how
Israel and South Africa helped each other build atomic bombs in
secret.”
—Stephen Kinzer, The Daily Beast
 
“Path-breaking. . . . Remarkably revealing. . . . A wise, elegantly
written, and strikingly fair-minded book which deserves the widest
possible readership.”
—Avi Shlaim, author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab
World
 
“Well-researched, readable and . . . balanced.”
—The London Review of Books
 
“Comprehensive. . . . A very important contribution in the study of
modern and contemporary history for its wealth of material and the
objectivity of its author. It is highly recommended for both
academics and the general reader.”
—The Middle East Journal
 
“Fascinating. . . . A major, long overdue study of the rise and
demise of one of the most intriguing alliances of our time.
Polakow-Suransky has written a masterfully researched history that
reads like a thriller unraveling the secrets of an alliance
between two embattled societies under siege.”
—Shlomo Ben-Ami, foreign minister of Israel, 2000-2001