- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949, History, Jerusalem, history, Politics and government
Day by day and minute by minute, the historic struggle for Jerusalem and the birth of Israel. Here is the classic retelling of the spellbinding events of the birth of Israel. Moment by moment, Collins and Lapierre weave a brilliant tapestry of shattered hopes, fierce pride, and breathtaking daring as the Arabs, Jews, and British collide in their fight for control of Jerusalem.
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Grave, earnest, relentless and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 648
- Publisher
- Editorial Planeta, Blackstone Audiobooks, Pocket Books
- Editions
- 41
- Language
- English, German, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9788804452508
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“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.”
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