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The End of the British Mandate for Palestine, 1948: The Diary of Sir Henry Gurney

✍ Scribed by Motti Golani (auth.)


Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Leaves
257
Series
St Antony’s Series
Category
Library

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✦ Table of Contents


Front Matter....Pages i-xi
The Diary and the Diarist....Pages 1-22
Real Time and Researcher’s Time....Pages 23-23
Annotated Diary and Perspectives....Pages 24-210
Epilogue....Pages 211-217
Back Matter....Pages 218-245

✦ Subjects


Terrorism and Political Violence; History of Britain and Ireland; History of the Middle East; Political History; Asian History; Modern History


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