"Out of the Sky is a riveting story of Jewish resistance. For years I looked exactly for this book, for a textured and nuanced portrait of Hannah Senesh, Haviva Reich, and their fellow parachutists. In resurrecting this remarkable historical moment, Matti Friedman not only sheds light on an underdiscussed period but wisely hints at how this heroic narrative has helped shape modern Jewish identity."
—Judy Batalion, author of The Last Woman of Warsaw

"An absolutely captivating story where the reality that Friedman has uncovered is far more fascinating than the myth. This is a book, in every sense, about the distance between heaven and earth, and the courage it takes to cross it."
—Dara Horn, author of People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"In this hauntingly beautiful book, Matti Friedman sets out to recover the story of Hannah Senesh and her fallen companions from the shadowland of myth and fading memory. Friedman movingly gathers up the sparks of his Jewish heroes’ brief lives, their biblical dreams, European nightmares, and above all the hope, imagination, and youthful daring that could not save Europe’s Jews but continue to inspire the old-new country whose rebirth is Friedman’s true subject."
—Jonathan Rosen, author of The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

"I’ll read anything Matti Friedman writes, knowing his work will not only engage and enlighten, but transform me. Out of the Sky is the story of a woman who became a legend—and of the eternal interplay between human lives and history, how our stories, taken together, become the record of who we are."
—Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated

"Thrilling, terrifying and awe-inspiring, this is one of the great untold special forces stories of WW2: the joint SOE-Haganah mission into Yugoslavia, a story filled with espionage, daring, and peril, beautifully told by one of our finest storytellers, Matti Friedman. Compelling and compulsive reading."
—Simon Sebag Montefiore, international bestselling author of The World: A Family History of Humanity and Stalin: The Court of the Red Zsar

"Matti Friedman achieves the rare feat of transforming archival discovery into gripping literature. Out of the Sky is at once an eloquent inquiry into heroism, a wrenching chronicle of bravery and betrayal, and a poignant evocation of a generation hurled from innocence into the maw of history."
—Benjamin Balint, author of Kafka’s Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy

"In Out of the Sky, [Friedman] tells the gripping and surprising tale of a forgotten moment, demonstrating how storytelling itself can have a power even greater than warfare. And in exploring the line between myth and reality, heroism and futility, he creates an argument that has resonance in our own time."
—BookReporter

"Mat­ti Fried­man has made some­thing of a spe­cial­ty of writ­ing war sto­ries with a human touch."
—Jewish Book Council

"The book's greatest achievement lies in its refusal of complacency, its insistence that history is not a settled acount but an ongoing argument.... It compels engagement, and in doing so, fulfills its ambition as a serious and provocative intervention."
—The Sri Lanka Guardian