My Father's House

Plot

Allon is a great writer, both in his "Scientifc" writing (Like the Suberb "A Curtain of Sand" that is a must to any strategist.) and in his storytelling. "My Father's House" is a great autobiography, written with a lot of love, nostalgy and humor. In his regular modesty that is uncommon among diplomats or Generals (And he was both.), especially in their autobiographies, Allon is not bragging in his great deeds, he isn't even placing himself in the center of the book, but he is telling us his own story, through his father's story. He is telling us about why he had become the person that he is, the person that had done all the great things that doesn't appear in the book. This book is giving a personal and very interesting point of view on the life in the pre-Israel Palestine told by a Jewish person who was born there, but more important, this book is reminding us that even the greatest people once had Fathers. Finish this book, and go give your dad a big hug!