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Joseph H. Dabby was ten years old when he discovered he had three older siblings. His parents, facing increasing persecution in Iraq, had sent their older children to Israel when Dabby was five and planned to join them a few weeks later-but they never made it. Instead, the family was split in two, forced to live in separate countries at war with each other. NO LOOKING BACK is the story of one man's childhood and adolescence under a repressive regime, his marriage to his sweetheart, and their eventual escape to freedom in 1971.

In 1798, an initial review of France’s naval forces had led Napoleon to conclude his navy could not hope to outfight the power of the Royal Navy, which had been the dominant naval power for centuries, so he was forced to look elsewhere. After months of planning, Napoleon crafted a scheme to attack and conquer Egypt, denying the British easy access to their colonies in India, with the ultimate goal of linking up with the Sultan Tipoo in India itself and defeating the British in the field there. Napoleon sailed with Admiral Brueys and 30,000 troops that June, heading for Egypt.