Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe by Friedman, Matti
Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe by Friedman, Matti

Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe

Was it one of the war's most memorable feats of valor or an act of desperation, even...
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Author: Matti Friedman
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Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe by Friedman, Matti

Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe

$95.99 $49.71
Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe by Friedman, Matti

Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe

$95.99 $49.71
Author: Matti Friedman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Was it one of the war's most memorable feats of valor or an act of desperation, even madness?

In Out of the Sky, Matti Friedman unravels one of the strangest episodes of World War II: In 1944, a team of young women and men who had escaped the Holocaust made the inconceivable choice to parachute back into Nazi-occupied Europe under the cover of a British military operation. Yet by the end of the mission, not a single Nazi was harmed and not a single Jew was saved, and many of the parachutists died in the process. Even so, some of their names would become legendary, especially that of twenty-three-year-old Hannah Senesh, the author of the beloved Hebrew song "Eli, Eli." Their story would become one of the young state of Israel's founding myths--but what exactly was the mission, and what had the parachutists actually accomplished? What made them heroes?

Using thousands of original documents from once-secret files, manuscripts, memoirs, and unpublished letters, Matti Friedman follows four of the parachutists from the spring of 1944 to the operation's dramatic end that winter. In Out of the Sky, he tells the gripping and surprising tale of a forgotten moment, demonstrating how storytelling itself can have a power even greater than warfare. And in exploring the line between myth and reality, heroism and futility, he creates an argument that has resonance in our own time.



Author: Matti Friedman
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: 03/24/2026
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781954118980


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2026

About the Author
Matti Friedman is an award-winning journalist and author. His four previous nonfiction books have been awarded the Sami Rohr Prize, the Natan Prize, and the ALA's Sophie Brody Medal, and have been translated into a dozen languages. Born in Toronto and based in Jerusalem, he has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Smithsonian and is a columnist for the Free Press.
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