The Pledge

About the Book

The story of an incredible and dramatic race against time to provide a state not yet born with an Air Force and weapons to defend itself — an epic that contained heroism, farce and endless contradictions. Its headquarters was a New York hotel known for its tall chorus girls.

About the Author

Leonard Slater spent over 25 years as a correspondent, writer and editor for Newsweek, NBC News and Time Magazine in New York, Washington, Los Angeles and throughout Europe and Asia. His research for the pledge was helped by his own reportorial recollections of Czechoslovakia and Israel in 1948.