A Purity of Arms

In the book Purity of Arms, Aaron Wolf, an American who became an Israeli citizen in 1985, chronicles his 18 months of military service in the Israeli army. This first-person narrative tells of a demanding training and of nerve-wracking patrols and ambushes on the West Bank and in Southern Lebanon. Wolf describes his unit's involvement in early stages of the "sticks and stones war" - the Intifada.

227 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition. ISBN 0-385-260369.

This is the forty-second hour and I am still awake. WE have cleared the road five miles in one direction and now we are clearing it on the way back. We are moving in a T-formation. The guys on the flanks are checking for wires, booby traps, or mines.

(Aaron Wolf: A Purity of Arms - An American in the Israeli Army, page 3)