ABU-SHARIF Basam, MAHNAIMI Uzi
Tried by Fire - The Searing True Story of Two Men at the Heart of the Struggle Between the Arabs and the Jews
Hardcover, dj, in-8, 297 pp., illustrations
Bassam Abu-Sharif, Yasser Arafat's chief lieutenant, and Uzi Mahnaimi, a former Israeli intelligence major, met in a London restaurant in 1988, and joined forces in the search for peace. Their stories, and those of their fathers and grandfathers, personify 100 years of war between Arab and Jew.