The reckoning
Subtitle: death and intrigue in the promised land---a true detective story
By: Patrick Bishop
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780062267825; 9780062267832; 9780062267849
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Revisionist Zionists; Politics and government; Israel; Assassination; Jewish; 20th Century; Modern; LohĐame hĐerut Yisraơel; Biography; HISTORY
Description: "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. As the ringleader of the infamous Stern Gang, also known as Lehi, he masterminded a series of high-profile terrorist attacks in pursuit of his dream. On the run from British authorities who'd put a bounty on his head, Stern was hiding in an attic in Tel Aviv when he was killed by Assistant Superintendent Geoffrey Morton, a British colonial policeman assigned to capture him. Morton claimed Stern was trying to escape. But witnesses insisted he was executed in cold blood. His controversial death inspired a cult of martyrdom that gave new life to Lehi, helping to destroy hopes of a detente between the British, the Arabs, and the Jews. The Reckoning is the story of Patrick Bishop's quest to discover the truth. Based on extensive research--including access to Morton's private archive and eyewitness interviews--it recounts this seismic event in full, without bias, placing it within the context of its turbulent time. Bishop's gripping, groundbreaking narrative brings to life two men similar in ambition and dedication, chronicles the events that led to their fatal meeting, and explores how the impact of Stern's death reverberated through the final years of British rule and the birth of Israel"--

"One of Britain's most renowned military historians revisits the death of Zionist leader Avraham Stern--head of Israel's notorious Stern Gang--at the hand of a British policeman during WWII"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'There are few who do good and many that do evil'; title: 'This was the job for'; title: 'Let fists be flung like stone'; title: 'A soul for a soul and blood for blood'; title: 'And he is a rebel, eager for the storm'; title: 'In the underground'; title: 'they will cover your memory with spittle and disgrace'; title: A 'trap for the British brutes'; title: 'Al-Ta'Amod!'; title: 'It doesn't matter if they kill me'; title: 'Avraham, Avraham'; title: 'The blood of your brethren is calling to you from the gave'; title: 'Hatred was aflame in their hearts and the need for vengeance burned'; title: 'Terrorism is an infectious disease; title: 'Striking a blow against the falsification of history'; title: 'It's nothing like the truth'; title: 'The Holy City."