Israel category: 987 books
by Martin Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present, including the death of Yasser Arafat and recent proposals for compromise and co-operation, it also illustrates the current moves...
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
The Palestine War 1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The Palestine War has been by far the most important military encounter in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This book examines the origins of the war and its progression through two distinct stages: the guerrilla warfare between the Arab and Jewish communities of Mandatory Palestine, and...
by Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1972
“A monumental work!” —Cleveland Press
“Moving, fascinating, informative… No other book on this subject… comes close to O Jerusalem!” —Los Angeles Times
“It reads like a whodunit, and you turn page after page to see what happens next. … The pace is so swift, the drama...
The Reckoning
Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land-A True Detective Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
One of Britain's most renowned military historians revisits a controversial murder: that of Zionist leader Avraham Stern, head of Israel's notorious Stern Gang, in Tel Aviv during WWII.
Militant Zionist Avraham Stern believed he was destined to be the Jewish liberator of British Palestine....
by Ilan Pappe
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.
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Righteous Victims
A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Righteous Victims, by the noted historian Benny Morris, is a comprehensive and
objective history of the long battle between Arabs and Jews for possession of a land they both call home. It appears at a most timely juncture, as the bloody and protracted struggle seems at last to be headed for resolution.
With...
The Lemon Tree
An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
With a new afterword by the author, and a sneak preview of Sandy Tolan's new book, Children of the Stone
In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family...
Whose Promised Land
The Continuing Conflict Over Israel and Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has profoundly affected the Middle East for almost seventy years, and shows no sign of ending. With two peoples claiming the same piece of land for different reasons, it remains a huge political and humanitarian problem. Can it ever be resolved? If...
Yitzhak Rabin
Soldier, Leader, Statesman
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2017
An insider’s perspective on the life and influence of Israel’s first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination in 1995, yet he remains an unusually intriguing and admired...
by Boaz Neumann
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
This innovative study examines the responses of early-twentieth-century pioneers to “the Land” of Palestine. Early Zionist historiography portrayed these young settlers as heroic; later, more critical studies by the “new” historians and sociologists focused on their failures and shortcomings....
by David Biale
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided political decisions," like Israel's Lebanese WarBiale analyzes Jewish history from the point of view of politics and power.
The author of...
The Six-Day War
The Conflict that Re-Shaped the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Six-Day War in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Six-Day War. In 1967, relations between the State of Israel and its neighbours, which had long been strained,...
Political Theologies in the Holy Land
Israeli Messianism and its Critics
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book examines the role of messianism in Zionist ideology, from the birth of the Zionist movement through to the present. Is shows how messianism is not just a religious or philosophical term but a very tangible political practice and theology which has shaped Israeli identity.
The author...
by Kirk Beattie
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
How does one explain US Middle East policy? When Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer wrote their bestselling book The Israel Lobby, they attributed our pro-Israel policy to the power of the lobby itself. Others have criticized this approach as overly simplistic. Longtime Middle East watcher Professor...