Battling for Peace:: A Memoir

By Shimon Peres

Book Overview

Certain to fascinate anyone intrigued about the future of the Middle East, these revealing memoirs of Shimon Peres, former Israeli Minister of Defense and winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, tell of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679436170
• ISBN13: 9780679436171
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Battling for Credibility

Is Israel's perennial loser perhaps a winner after all? It is said that people take comfort from the setbacks of others and after his failure to win any election making him PM it would be easy to write off Shimon Peres.His autobiography "Battling for Peace" shows how a very ambitious politician uses reverses to strengthen his political backbone.Peres describes his early childhood in Poland, his emigration to Palestine and his political progress which started even while he was on a Kibbutz.Peres has been at the core of world politics for half a century and has met all other leaders of significance and his pen portraits especially of Mitterand Nixon and Clinton are most entertaining.The Olso process is reported in detail and this book is a must for anybody who wishes to acquaint temselves with the twisting currents of events in the Middle East.The book is obviously only an interim Report as it predates Rabins assassination.