Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 8
Tributes to Giora 9
Map of Six-Day War 11
Preface - The One That Got Away 12
Chapter 1 Nature Boy on the Kibbutz 15
Chapter 2 War and Evacuation 23
Chapter 3 Not Fit to Be a Pilot 30
Chapter 4 If Not a Pilot, Then a Paratrooper 33
Chapter 5 In Erol's Company; in Raful's Battalion 35
Chapter 6 Fellah and Shepherd 39
Chapter 7 In Ethiopia with Emperor Haile Selassie 43
Chapter 8 Epstein Becomes Even 45
Chapter 9 Back to the Pilot Training Course 48
Chapter 10 From top of the Class to… the Helicopter Squadron 57
Chapter 11 A Fighter Pilot at Last! 63
Chapter 12 Love at First Sight 69
Chapter 13 War and My First Kill 74
Chapter 14 Dogfights in the Desert 87
Chapter 15 Hawkeye 97
Chapter 16 War-and I'm in the Kirya… 110
Chapter 17 Back to Combat 118
Chapter 18 One versus Ten 129
Chapter 19 The Final Battle 136
Chapter 20 Lessons in the Air 139
Chapter 21 Back to the Routine 144
Chapter 22 Commander of the First Jet Squadron 151
Chapter 23 The Heart Wants the First Fighter Squadron; Sara wants El Al 158
Chapter 24 A New Life in El Al 163
Chapter 25 Goodbye to the Mirage 169
Chapter 26 The Battle Over the F-16 173
Chapter 27 The Last Flight 181
Chapter 28 The Heart 186
Glossary 190
Index 191
