Research Catalog

Title

Terror out of Zion : the fight for Israeli independence / J. Bowyer Bell ; with a new introduction by the author and a forewordby Moshe Arens.

Author

Bell, J. Bowyer, 1931-

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c1996.

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Details

Description

xix, 374 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

This is the story of desperate, dedicated revolutionaries who were driven to conclude that lives must be taken if Israel were to live. their dynamite bombing of the King David Hotel was only one of the acts of terror which forced the british out of the middle east. in this book the author evaluates whether these acts were extremist or necessary, and whether these men and women were fanatics or zionist freedom fighters.

Subjects

• History
• Palestine > History > 1929-1948
• Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
• Loḥame ḥerut Yiśraʼel
• Irgun tsevaʼi leʼumi

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Previously published: Dublin : Academy Press, 1977.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-357) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The rise and decay of the Irgun: the Jabotinsky years -- The nights of despair -- The revolt: menachem begin "we fight, therefore we are" -- The impact of insurrection, 1943-1945 -- The united resistance, 1945-1946 -- A war of attrition, 1946-1947 -- From the Great Prison escape to lake success, May-November 1947 -- The undeclared war -- The Arabs attack, December 1947-March 1948 -- The Jews attack, March 1948-May 1948 -- The war for Israel.

ISBN

• 1560008709 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781560008705 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^95049992^

OCLC

• 33666109
• SCSB-12504839

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library