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First Edition [stated], presumed first printing
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2015
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English
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Very good in Very good jacket. xv, [1]. 618, [6] pages. Endpaper maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Chapters 1 through 6 cover the period of time from Britain's conquest of Palestine in 1917, toward the end of World War I, to the early years of World War II, depicting the reasons behind the emergence of a Jewish underground in response to Arab violence and terrorism, and traces its evolution into a counterterrorism strike force that eventually turned its weapons on Britain as well. Chapters 7 through 10 focus on wartime Palestine. The split that produced rival Jewish Terrorist factions, the official Zionist movement, and the growing polarization of the Jewish community from the British government led to the escalation of Jewish terrorism, now directed solely against the British government. The final part, chapters 11 through 19, chronicles the war that Britain fought in Palestine following World War II. This landmark history, based on newly available documents, covers the battles between Jews, Arabs, and the British that led to the creation of Israel. Contains previously unknown detail of how Britain, in the twilight of empire, struggled and ultimately failed to reconcile competing Arab and Jewish demands and uprisings. A concatenation of powerful forces, including Jewish terrorism, combined to render Britain's continued rule of Palestine untenable. The author, a leading expert on terrorism, shines new light on the bombing of the King David Hotel, the assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo, the leadership of Menachem Begin, the life and death of Abraham Stern, and much else. Bruce Hoffman (born 1954) is a political analyst specializing in the study of terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and counter-insurgency. He is a tenured professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where between 2010 and 2017 he was the director of the Center for Security Studies and director of the security studies program. Hoffman is the second longest-serving director in the center and program's three-decade history. Derived from a Kirkus review: Terrorism scholar Hoffman draws on British, Israeli and American archives, uncovering much new material, in this history of Zionists' determination to oust the British from Palestine. Terrorism, carried out by two rival groups-Irgun and the more extreme Lehi-resulted, after 30 years of violence, in British withdrawal and the creation of Israel. Britain's presence had been authorized by the Mandate of Palestine, a consequence of the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. By 1929, despite improvements to infrastructure and standard of living, both Arabs and Jews were seething with resentment. In the 1930s, hundreds of thousands of Jews fleeing the Nazis pressed for permission to immigrate, incensed over Britain's quota; Arabs, threatened by an increase in population, formed marauding guerrilla bands. With British soldiers fighting the war, the police force was inadequate and demoralized. In 1938 alone, 5, 708 terrorist incidents occurred. Of more than 90 protagonists in this teeming drama, Menachem Begin emerges as one of the most violent, the mastermind behind the horrific bombing of the King David Hotel in 1939. British leaders, some openly anti-Semitic, vacillated as terrorists fulfilled their mission to make Palestine ungovernable. Hoffman concludes that the "rise of Israel was the product of many powerful forces in addition to terrorism." But the Irgun's success, he chillingly notes, laid the groundwork for today's globalized terrorism. An authoritative, sweeping, important history that shows how terrorism "is neither irrational nor desperate but instead entirely rational and often carefully calculated and choreographed.".
