Fighting Back: Stan Andrews and the Birth of the Israeli Air Force

Jeffrey Weiss · Craig Weiss

May 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Barry Abrams

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Fighting Back is the story of Stan Andrews, an assimilated American Jew and World War II veteran who became one of the first fighter pilots in the history of the Israeli Air Force. In 1948, Stan Andrews left a comfortable postwar life in Los Angeles to travel to the war-torn Middle East, where a four-front Arab invasion threatened to destroy the newly-declared State of Israel. There he joined the Israeli Air Force and became one of its first fighter pilots. Andrews was an unexpected volunteer for the fight for a Jewish state. He was many things-an artist, writer, assimilated Jew, ladies' man, pilot, and combat veteran of the Pacific War. He had previously been aloof from the struggle for Jewish independence but found himself so roused by the anti-Semitism of 1940s America that he decided to go to Israel and risk everything. Stan made the most of his time in Israel, serving in fighter and bomber squadrons and leaving his mark on an Israeli Air Force that has since become the stuff of legend.

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Jeff Weiss is coauthor of I Am My Brother's Keeper: American Volunteers in Israel's War for Independence and Fighting Back. He is featured in the 2014 Nancy Spielberg documentary Above and Beyond. In addition to a law degree, he holds Master's degrees in international law and in biotechnology.

Craig Weiss, the coauthor of I Am My Brother's Keeper, is fluent in Hebrew and lived in Israel for four years. He is also featured in Above and Beyond. As part of the research for I Am My Brother's Keeper, Craig personally interviewed more than one hundred of the volunteers.

Barry Abrams has narrated and produced audiobooks for a variety of publishers. Since 2012, he has also hosted and produced ESPN's In the Gate podcast. Based in Danbury, Connecticut, Barry engineers and calls live webcasts of his son's ice hockey games.

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