MY FATHER, HIS DAUGHTER
by Yael Dayan
Farrar, Straus & Giroux;
289 pages; $17.95
< The Israeli Cyclops was victorious in the Six-Day War and died peacefully in bed. But before and between these terminals a tragedy unfolded, according to his daughter. Although the memoirs of Yael, 46, are cloaked in raiments of respect ("It was easy to admire him . . . he looked his best in uniform"), Moshe Dearest is remembered mostly for his inadequacies. He posed as a family man, but philandered compulsively ("His choice of bed partners was vulgar and in poor taste") and complained about Yael's...
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