The Gun and the Olive Branch
Edition: 3Rev Ed edition
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: August 21, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9780571219452
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; International relations; Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; Israel; Palestine; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; History: World
First sentence: THIS IS THE THIRD EDITION of a book that was first published, in the United States and Britain, in 1977, on the eve of that historic breakthrough in Middle east peace-making, the pilgrimage which President Anwar Sadat of Egypt made to Jerusalem and the first-ever peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state to which it led.