O Jerusalem!
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: September 4, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9781416556275
Subjects: Israel - History; History; History - General History; History: World; Middle East - Israel; History / General; Middle East - General; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949; Jerusalem; Siege, 1948
First sentence: IN THE AFTERNOON of Saturday, November 29, 1947, in a cavernous gray building that had ounce housed an ice-skating rink, in Flushing Meadow, New York, the delegates of fifty-six of the fifty-seven members of the General Assembly of the United Nations were called upon to decide the future of a silver of land set on the eastern rim of the Mediterranean.