Full name: 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

Author: Benny Morris Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, War/Military, Non Fiction, Politics Culture: Israel Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780300126969 9780300151121 0300126964 0300151128

This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the military engagements, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western documentation. The Arab side - where the archives are still closed - is illuminated with the help of intelligence and diplomatic materials. Morris stresses the character of the two-stage Arab assault on the Jewish community in Palestine. Throughout, he examines the dialectic between the war's military and political developments and highlights the military impetus in the creation of the refugee problem, which was a by-product of the disintegration of Palestinian Arab society. The book thoroughly investigates the role of the Great Powers - Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union - in shaping the conflict and its tentative termination in 1949. Morris looks both at high politics and general staff decision-making processes and at the nitty-gritty of combat in the successive battles that resulted in the emergence of the State of Israel and the humiliation of the Arab world, a humiliation that underlies the continued Arab antagonism toward Israel.   Similar books: 1949 by Tom Segev The Yellow Wind by David Grossman 1967 by Tom Segev The Iron Wall by Avi Shlaim Righteous Victims by Benny Morris How Israel Lost by Richard Ben Cramer Battleground by Samuel M. Katz One Palestine, Complete by Tom Segev The Accidental Empire by Gershom Gorenberg Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Charles D. Smith A History of Israel by Howard M. Sachar A History of Modern Palestine by Ilan Pappe The Arab-Israeli Wars by Chaim Herzog Jerusalem 1913 by Amy Dockser Marcus The Gun and the Olive Branch by David Hirst Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman Warriors of God by Nicholas Blanford The 51 Day War by Max Blumenthal Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch