Israel category: 987 books
by Shlomo Aloni
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The American manufactured F-4 Phantom II was used by the Israelis in air-to-ground missions, as an attack aircraft, and air-to-air missions as a fighter. Despite performing both roles with equal success the Israeli reliance on the Mirage III and Nesher delta fighters meant that the F-4 was used most...
by Benno Weiser Varon
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
In 1932, Benno Weiser was studying medicine in Vienna. During a brawl he rescued a fellow Jewish student by cracking the skull of a huge Nazi with two outsized metal keys, while some thirty Nazis watched. He considers this event his rite of passage — proving to himself that “Jews are no cowards.”...
The Biggest Prison on Earth
A History of the Occupied Territories
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
From the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an incisive look at the Occupied Territories, picking up the story where The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine left off.
Publishing on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War that culminated in the Israeli occupation of...
How Jerusalem Was Won
Being the Record of Allenby’s Campaign in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby GCB, GCMG, GCVO (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was a British soldier and administrator most famous for his role during the First World War, in which he led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in...
Operation Peace for Galilee
The Israeli-PLO War In Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1984
The first book about the 1982 war in Lebanon, Operation Peace for Galilee is based on hundreds of interviews with the soldiers of both sides, the guerrillas who fought in it, and the civilians caught in the middle. Much of the detail is drawn from in-depth conversations with the major Israeli commanders...
The Naqab Bedouins
A Century of Politics and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Conventional wisdom positions the Bedouins in southern Palestine and under Israeli military rule as victims or passive recipients. In The Naqab Bedouins, Mansour Nasasra rewrites this narrative, presenting them as active agents who, in defending their community and culture, have defied attempts at...
by John Lewis Burckhardt
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
During his residence in Syria, Burckhardt visited Palmyra, Damascus, Lebanon and made a series of other exploratory trips in the region. One of these trips, in what is now modern-day Jordan, resulted in his 'discovery' of the extensive and unique ruins of Petra which had been undiscovered...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The Arab Rebellion and British Counter-rebellion campaign of 1936 to 1939 in Palestine exhibited many features of modern insurgency and counterinsurgency. This thesis traces the British military thought and practice for countering rebellion as influenced by their Small Wars' experiences, and it then...
De Tempeliers
De opkomst en ondergang van de tempelridders
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Upcoming historicus Dan Jones vertelt in zijn boek ‘De Tempeliers’ over de bloei en de ondergang van de kruisridders. In de 12e eeuw richtten negen ridders de Orde van de Tempeliers op. De broederschap moest de pelgrims in het Heilige Land beschermen. De pelgrims legden een gelofte van armoede...
The Accursed Tower
The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
**From a New York Times-bestselling author, a stirring account of the siege of Acre in 1291, when the last Christian stronghold fell to the Muslim army
The 1291 siege of Acre was the Alamo of the Christian Crusades -- the final bloody battle for the Holy Land. After a desperate six weeks, the...
Isma'ili Modern
Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
The Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic fieldwork in the Himalayan regions of Tajikistan...
The Way of the Lord
Christian Pilgrimage Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Vividly evoking the sights, sounds, and smells of the Holy Land, this book by N. T. Wright is ideal for both individual and group study by any readers who have embarked on the spiritual journey of the Christian life.
Wright explores all the sites that travelers usually visit on a tour of the...
In Jerusalem
Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A fresh lens on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that examines the life-shaping reverberations of wars and ongoing tensions upon the everyday lives of families in Jerusalem.
An American, secular, diasporic Jew, Lis Harris grew up with the knowledge of the historical wrongs done to Jews. In...
by Haim Watzman
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
The Jordan Rift Valley, stretching from the Red Sea to Lebanon, was ripped open millions of years ago by vast forces within the earth. This geological object has also been a part of human history ever since early humans used it as a path in their journey out of Africa. And for a quarter of a century...