The making of modern Israel, 1948-1967
By: Leslie Stein
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780745644660; 9780745644677
Subjects: History
Description: Based on a wide range of sources, both in Hebrew and English, this book contains a judicious synthesis of the received literature to yield the general reader and student alike a reliable, balanced, and novel account of Israel's fateful and turbulent infancy. -- from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-396) and index.
Table of contents: title: The war of independence; title: The Arab refugees; title: The ingathering of the exiles; title: Early social, economic, and political developments; title: The scourge of Arab infiltration; title: Operation Kadesh : the Sinai campaign; title: Interlude between wars; title: The lead up to the Six-Day War; title: The Six-Day War and its aftermath.