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  • The Edge of the Sword: Israel’s War of Independence 1947-1949

    by Netanel Lorch ...
    Netanel Lorch, who fought as an officer in Jerusalem during Israel’s War of Independence and later founded the Israel Defense Forces’ Historical Section, offers a detailed military history of the years 1947-49. The book begins with the tensions of the British Mandate period in Palestine, including the international debates over proposed boundaries for the new Jewish state, and examines the chaos ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • A History of Israel

    From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time

    First published in 1976, Howard M. Sachar’s A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time was regarded one of the most valuable works available detailing the history of this still relatively young country. Decades later, readers can again be immersed in this monumental work.The second edition of this volume covers topics such as the first of the Aliyahs in the 1880s; the rise of Jewish ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Anonymous Soldiers

    The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947

    by Bruce Hoffman ...
    Winner of the National Jewish Book AwardWinner of the Washington Institute Book PrizeOne of the Best Books of the YearSt. Louis Post-Dispatch * Kirkus ReviewsIn this groundbreaking work, Bruce Hoffman—America’s leading expert on terrorism—brilliantly re-creates the crucial thirty-year period that led to the birth of Israel. Drawing on previously untapped archival resources in... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Israel Journal

    June, 1967

    by Yaël Dayan ...
    An honest and stark account of life on the battlefield during the Six-Day WarWhen the historic Six-Day War breaks out in June 1967, Yaël Dayan finds herself on the front lines in the Sinai desert, fighting for her country. Dayan, a journalist, an author, and the daughter of the renowned Israeli general Moshe Dayan, a key military leader in Israel's War of Independence two decades earlier, offers a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Menachem Begin

    The Battle for Israel's Soul

    by Daniel Gordis ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Reviled as a fascist by his great rival Ben-Gurion, venerated by Israel’s underclass, the first Israeli to win the Nobel Peace Prize, a proud Jew but not a conventionally religious one, Menachem Begin was both complex and controversial. Born in Poland in 1913, Begin was a youthful admirer of the Revisionist Zionist Ze’ev Jabotinsky and soon became a leader within Jabotinsky’s Betar movement. A ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • My Father, His Daughter

    by Yaël Dayan ...
    A life of one of Israel's greatest heroes, as seen through his daughter's eyesMoshe Dayan was one of the greatest military leaders in Israel's short history. A child of the first kibbutz movement in British Palestine, he went on to lead Israel to victory in the 1948 War of Independence and to liberate Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War. Dayan was not only a soldier but a politician, an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Zionism

    From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel

    From one of the most distinguished historians of our time comes the definitive general history of the Zionist movement. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Man Who Fell Into a Puddle

    Israeli Lives

    by Igal Sarna ...
    "Throughout my life as a journalist," writes Igal Sarna in his preface, "I have written about Israeli traumas and have seen how new lives are built on the ruins. How a new land sprouts out from a charred ground zero." In this striking collection of essays, Sarna taps his powers as an acclaimed investigative journalist to uncover the fascinating, wrenching experiences of Israeli men and women ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Operation Exodus

    From the Nazi Death Camps to the Promised Land: A Perilous Journey That Shaped Israel's Fate

    by Gordon Thomas ...
    The riveting chronicle of Jewish war survivors and their flight on the dramatic voyage of Exodus 1947, the international incident that gained sympathy for the formation of IsraelThe underground Jewish group Haganah arranged for the purchase of a small American steamer as part of an ambitious and daring mission: to serve as lifeboat for more than four thousand survivors of Nazi rule and transport ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • By Blood and Fire

    July 22, 1946: The Attack On Jerusalem's King David Hotel

    On July 22, 1946 six members of the Irgun, a Jewish underground group headed by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, entered the basement of Jerusalem's King David Hotel and planted seven milk churns filled with explosives underneath the wing housing the headquarters of the British Mandatory Government of Palestine. The ensuing explosion killed ninety-one Britons, Arabs, and Jews, in ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Monash's Masterpiece

    The battle of Le Hamel and the 93 minutes that changed the world

    The Battle of Le Hamel on 4 July 1918 was an Allied triumph, and strategically very important in the closing stages of WWI. A largely Australian force, commanded by the brilliant Sir John Monash, fought what has been described as the first modern battle - where infantry, tanks, artillery and planes operated together as a coordinated force.Monash planned every detail meticulously, with nothing left ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Zionist Paradox

    Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity

    Translated by Michal Sapir ...
    Series series The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies
    Many contemporary Israelis suffer from a strange condition. Despite the obvious successes of the Zionist enterprise and the State of Israel, tension persists, with a collective sense that something is wrong and should be better. This cognitive dissonance arises from the disjunction between “place” (defined as what Israel is really like) and “Place” (defined as the imaginary community comprised of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD