[etni] Congratulations to David Young
- From: Jack Pillemer <jackpil@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:04:12 +0200
Congratulations to David Young - a fellow Jerusalemite teacher and ETAI
treasurer - on the publication of yet another novel.
MULE CORPS WARRIOR:
There can be little doubt that archival research accounts for much of the rich
detail woven into David Young's latest historical novel, which explores the
tales of the Jewish Legion in WWI. But the U.K.-born amateur historian and
English teacher says that his combat experience aboard an armored personnel
carrier in the 1982 Lebanon War also helped him get into mind of a Jewish
warrior. "My own military experience in 1982 and in serving in armored infantry
in Gaza probably comes out in the story," Young said about his novel, entitled
"Of Guns and Mules." But although the 18-year-old hero of the
recently-published book is also named David, the author says that the brave
protagonist isn't a younger version of himself. "I would only hope to react as
he did," said Young, who settled in Jerusalem after immigrating to Israel in
1968. The book, printed by Gefen Publishing House, begins with David Levi's
deportation from Palestine by the Turks, and follows his enlistment into one of
the five battalions of Jewish volunteers which the British Army employed in the
war. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
Taken from Anglo-file in Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1150960.html
Jack Pillemer
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