Fighting Back is about Stan Andrews, an assimilated American Jew and WW II veteran who, in 1948, became one of the first fighter pilots in the Israeli Air Force. The book follows Stan’s short but dazzling life, including his transition from a brilliant student and talented artist into a daring bomber pilot in the Pacific during WWII, his post-war studies and romance in Los Angeles, and then his dramatic and unexpected decision to fight for a Jewish state. In Israel Stan served in the country’s first fighter squadron, performed high level liaison work under an assumed name, and then served in a bomber squadron before disappearing in a dramatic bombing raid.
