Joshua Sinai from the Washington Times said: A fascinating and dramatic account filled with lots of new information about a crucially formative period in Israel's history. The author recreates in vivid detail how this overarching effort included the covert purchasing, fixing and maintenance of a variety of surplus aircraft, such as Messerschmitt fighters and B-17 bombers, as well as firearms, in the United States, and the recruitment, training, and deployment of the mostly American pilots to fly them on what turned out to be dangerous long-distance missions to Israel.[1][6]