Published Books

Two Minutes Over Baghdad

With Amos Perlmutter & Michael I. Handel

London: Corgi, 1982, 192 pages; Second edition: London Frank Cass, 2003, 220 pages.

The Best of Enemies: Israel and Transjordan in the War of 1948

London: Frank Cass, 1987, 254 pages.

Intelligence Intervention in the Politics of Democratic States: The USA, Britain, and Israel

University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995, 392 pages.

Winner of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Books Award for 1996.

Israel’s National Security Towards the 21st Century (ed.)

London: Frank Cass: 2001, 215 pages.

The Watchman Fell Asleep: The Surprise of the Yom Kippur War and Its Sources

Albany: State of New York University Press, 2005, 308 pages.

Winner of The Israeli Political Science Association Best Book Award (2002).

The TV docudrama “The Silence of the Sirens,” which is based on the book, was the winner of the Israeli Academy Award for the best television feature film in 2004.

The Angel: The Egyptian Spy who Saved Israel

New York: HarperColins, 2016, 384 pages.

Winner of The National Jewish Book Award, History section (2016) and The Best Intelligence Book of 2017 Award by the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (US). A Netflix production of a movie based on the book, titled The Angel, was aired in September 2018.

Intelligence Success and Failure: The Human Factor

With Rose McDermott

New York, Oxford UP, 2017.

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