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Valérie Zenatti, a young woman from France, enlisted in the Israeli national defense service on her eighteenth birthday. Over the next two years she endured intense training and harsh living conditions, ultimately taking part in top‑secret missions with the secret service. Her account offers a personal look at military life from a female soldier’s perspective.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Autobiography
Authors: Valérie Zenatti
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