Noam:
Len Deighton, Bomber.
This is a rather straightforward story, told with outstanding skill of the everyday horror of fighting a war. The book details a single bomber mission over Germany and the crew who must risk their lives to complete it, This book struck me all the more as you and Yoni , in another age, would have been in this position. The sheer fear of the raid and the crews "who don't come back" every night. Even in what is still seen as a just war, on an individual basis, there is an internal struggle with fear as much as an external one with the enemy. Deighton is a master story teller you will really enjoy this. The companion volume, fighter is out of print I will bring you my copy in June.
Yonatan
FatherLand.
I read this about 15 years ago and found it really chilling. ON the face of it it is a simple detective story but the plot is set against a Germany that won World War 2, where Hitler is now an old man and America never entered the war (a bit like the isolationists and Pat Buchanan wanted to happen). The story twists and turns as details emerge from history which have been suppressed by the totalitarian government. There are a number of novels which use this theme, but this is by far the best.
