The Arab-Israeli Wars
Subtitle: War and Peace in the Middle East from the War of Independence through Lebanon
Publisher: Vintage
Published: December 12, 1983
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780394717463
First sentence: As Britain prepared to withdraw her forces in May 1948, and as the Jewish community in Palestine braced itself for the inevitable Arab onslaught, there emerged a factor that was to influence Israel's military considerations throughout the initial part of the War of independence.