Michael Bar-Zohar Books in Order
Michael Bar-Zohar has written 30 books, published between 1967 and 2021. The first book is The Hunt for German Scientists (1967) and the newest is The Mossad Amazons (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.
Michael Bar-Zohar is the pen name of Michel Yulzari. Michael Bar-Zohar also publishes as Michael Hastings.
- Books
- 30
- Published
- 1967–2021
- Pages on record
- 5,372 in 19 of 30 books
- Reading time
- 90–134 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,372 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 19 of 30 titles with a page count on record.
Michael Bar-Zohar is an Israeli historian, novelist and politician who sat in the Knesset for the Alignment and Labor Party in the 1980s and early 1990s. His nonfiction covers Israeli intelligence, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Second World War, from The Hunt for German Scientists (1967) and Ben-Gurion: A Biography (1968) to The Mossad Amazons (2021). Novels published as Michael Barak sit alongside it - The Secret List of Heinrich Roehm (1976), The Enigma (1978), Enigma Sacrifice (1979) - across 30 catalogued titles.
How many Michael Bar-Zohar books are there?
Michael Bar-Zohar has 30 books, released between 1967 and 2021.
Michael Bar-Zohar Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 30 Michael Bar-Zohar books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1The Hunt for German Scientists1967 · confirmed 1/41967–1/4
- 2The Avengers1968 · 287 pages · confirmed 1/419682871/4
- 3Ben-Gurion: A Biography1968 · confirmed 1/41968–1/4
- 4Embassies in Crisis1970 · 279 pages · confirmed 1/419702791/4
- 5Spies In The Promised Land1972 · 292 pages · confirmed 1/419722921/4
- 6The Spy Who Died Twice1973 · 212 pages · confirmed 1/419732121/4
- 7The Third Truth1973 · 189 pages · confirmed 1/419731891/4
- 8The Secret List of Heinrich Roehm (As:Michael Barak)1976 · 228 pages · confirmed 1/419762281/4
- 9The Enigma (As:Michael Barak)1978 · confirmed 1/41978–1/4
- 10Enigma Sacrifice (As: Michael Barak)1979 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/419792401/4
- 11The Deadly Document1980 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/419802401/4
- 12The Phantom Conspiracy (As: Michael Barak)1980 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/419803361/4
- 13Double Cross (As:Michael Barak)1981 · 277 pages · confirmed 1/419812771/4
- 14The Quest For The Red Prince1983 · 232 pages · confirmed 1/419832321/4
- 15Hitler's Jewish Spy1985 · 228 pages · confirmed 1/419852281/4
- 16Arrows of the Almighty1985 · 228 pages · confirmed 1/419852281/4
- 17Facing a Cruel Mirror1990 · 246 pages · confirmed 1/419902461/4
- 18Brothers1992 · confirmed 1/41992–1/4
- 19Bitter Scent1996 · 264 pages · confirmed 1/419962641/4
- 20Beyond Hitler's Grasp1998 · confirmed 1/41998–1/4
- 21Massacre in Munich2002 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/420022561/4
- 22Yaacov Herzog: A Biography2005 · confirmed 1/42005–1/4
- 23Shimon Peres: The Biography2007 · 554 pages · confirmed 1/420075541/4
- 24Phoenix: Shimon Peres and the Secret History of Israel2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 25Mossad2010 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/420104001/4
- 26A Spy in Winter2015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 27No Mission Is Impossible2015 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/420153841/4
- 28Commando2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 29Charged with Murder2021 · confirmed 1/42021–1/4
- 30The Mossad Amazons2021 · confirmed 1/42021–1/4
Michael Bar-Zohar books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Standalone books
30 books30 Michael Bar-Zohar titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Michael Bar-Zohar books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 30 Michael Bar-Zohar books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Michael Bar-Zohar
Start with The Hunt for German Scientists (1967), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Michael Bar-Zohar book?
The Mossad Amazons (2021) is the newest Michael Bar-Zohar book released so far.
Is there a new Michael Bar-Zohar book coming?
No next Michael Bar-Zohar book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Michael Bar-Zohar at a glance
- Paused
- No new Michael Bar-Zohar title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
- Release pace
- Michael Bar-Zohar books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 5,372 pages across the 19 of 30 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Michael Bar-Zohar books, 7 of 30, were published in the 1970s.
What the Michael Bar-Zohar books are about
19 of the 30 Michael Bar-Zohar books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: biography is tagged on 5 of 19. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Biography 5 of 19 books
- Arab-Israeli conflict 4 of 19 books
- Fiction in English 3 of 19 books
- Politics and government 3 of 19 books
- Influence 2 of 19 books
- Intelligence service 2 of 19 books
- Israel 2 of 19 books
- Israel-Arab War, 1967 2 of 19 books
- Palestinian Arabs 2 of 19 books
- Terrorism 2 of 19 books
- World War, 1939-1945 2 of 19 books