Tremendous book. Trey Yingst takes us with him as he follows the horror of the 7th of October and the days and weeks that surround this tragedy. I, for one, needed a couple days to come down from the book which I couldn’t put down probably because we were in Gulf War 1.
I can attest to the excellent work of Yingst. Not a single word is wasted. We feel the impact of his day-to-day experiences as a correspondent which is unimaginable. His humanity is manifested for all the victims of that ignoble moment in history. But I must confess his bringing in of his father to the experiences makes the book extremely honest and extremely relevant.
Yingst’s descriptions brings us right into the center of the theater of war and we marvel at his rare luck to have survived many close calls. His decision to maintain his neutrality during this moment of history shows his mastery of the events we now call simply, October 7th. We mourn for all the innocents. We are left with a loss because Yingst has painted the reality with such fine clarity. By the first quarter of the book, I couldn’t set it aside even though my desk is full. It is an extraordinarily intense book and took me back to our own experiences in Mifrat Milhama, Gulf War One. I feel that because we had that experience, I can attest to the excellence of Yingst’s book.
The ability of Yingst to bring us into the nightmare, and his devotion to the truth, is without compare. When he writes of the atrocities of October 7th, his work is especially good since he is honest about what happened but leaves it to us to ponder the matter. He does it just right.
There is no exaggeration anywhere in the book which means he has created an excellent history as much as to recount his experiences.
His compassion for truth and for all the people involved in the events of October 7th are strikingly honest. I was running alongside Yingst from the very beginning of the book. I was familiar with many of the places he mentions and had a hard time dealing with the reality since I knew the quiet of many of those places and the sweet people, who dwelt there and had so much hope for Israel to become the quiet world the same as the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of the tragedy. It is shocking, this story, it is difficult when you know who lived there. For many it was a sweet life, and a life filled with hope. I saw these people, some of them, at least on a long drive south once, a drive my husband wanted me to experience so I would know the length and breadth of Israel. They had such an exuberant attitude. I remember being ashamed since I am the eternal pessimist, and they were so light and delightful. A master historian and writer has now created a classical living history to be treasured.
Yingst is a master and this is a master work.
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