Genesis 1948

by Dan Kurzman

Book Overview

This book tells the full story of the first Arab-Israeli war and the birth of the State of Israel. Based largely on some 1000 interviews with participants of all nations, it describes the important military and diplomatic events of that epic war - from the struggle between Truman and Dean Rusk to the fall of Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter; from the Irgun-Stern Gang massacre at Deir Yassin to the ambush of a Hadassah hospital convoy; from the clandestine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306804735
• ISBN13: 9780306804731
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 749 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"