books by Avi Shlaim     books:       The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge Middle East Studies) Cambridge University Press, 2007 The 1948 war led to the creation of the state of Israel, the fragmentation of Palestine, and to a conflict which has raged across the intervening sixty years. The historical debate likewise continues and these debates are encapsulated in the second edition of The War for Palestine, updated to include chapters on Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. In a preface to the new edition, the editors survey the state of scholarship in this contested field. The ...             Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace1 review Avi Shlaim Knopf, 2008 A lion for the world A truly extrodinary account of every detail of King Hussien's lifelong quest for a place for his kingdom at the table of respected nations of the world - primarily by pushing for peace in his region at any cost (most often through secret contact with his Israeli nemeses). He was not without errors in this quest, and he benefitted personally ($$) probably more than he should have, but this is the ...             War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History, Revised and Updated15 reviews Avi Shlaim Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995 Unmissable classic - please bring out a new edition! When this first came out I nearly missed it because it appeared too short to be anything but a simplistic popularised summary. Thank goodness I did start browsing, because not only did the style have me hooked, the argument's balance and lucidity, and (whatever Likudnik propagandists may say) the thoroughly scholarly grounding of the account, made me realise that here at last I had the perfect ...             The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World49 reviews Avi Shlaim W. W. Norton & Company, 2001 The appraisal is fair.... The appraisal is fair. The Author was not fooling with the Lavon affair. He decided, with more discretion and valor, to attribute it all to Ben-Gurion's machinations. The hawkish branch of the Israeli leadership has always had to compensate for its political defeat at home through finding the deficiencies of others as cover up. Ben-Gurion believed that his superficial knowledge of Egypt in ...             The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists, and Palestine 1921-19514 reviews Avi Shlaim Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 Excellent account of Jordan's formation, Abdullah & 1948 While much maligned, Avi Shlaim writes an honest and cogent history of Abdullah, Jordan, British involvement in the Middle East and the conflict between Palestinians and Jews leading to 1948. His viewpoint, which many in the dwindling "Peace Now" movement share, needs to be understood. The history he writes is like nothing you will get reading mainstream writers like Bernard Lewis. Don't be ...             Israel in Search of a War: The Sinai Campaign, 1955-1956 Moti Golani Sussex Academic Press, 1997 History of the Suez crisis and the Sinai campaign.             The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge Middle East Studies)12 reviews Cambridge University Press, 2001 New History but decent History Despite the fact that this book contains work of the 'New Historians' it contains their strongest arguments rather than their weaker ones. The New Historians have tried to examine the history of Israel in a critical matter, trying to re-examine key events and re-write portions of them due to new research. In some cases such as Pappe this has meant a distortion of the historical record, however ...             King Hussein and the Quest for Peace in the Middle East Avi Shlaim Penguin Books Ltd, 2008             1948 : La Guerre de Palestine : Derrière le mythe... Eugene L. Rogan, Avi Shlaim Autrement, 2002             The Cold War and the Middle East Oxford University Press, USA, 1997 In the aftermath of the Second World War, the Middle East became one of the major theatres of the Cold War as a result of its strategic importance and its oil resources. In this compelling new book leading scholars analyze, for the first time, the impact of the Cold War on the behavior of individual local actors at three levels: international politics, regional politics, and domestic politics. The result is a highly informative and ...              search for books 1921-1951, 1955-1956, 1956, abdullah, arab, cambridge, campaign, concise, derrière, guerre, history, hussein, iron, israel, jordan, middle, mythe, palestine, partition, peace, politics, quest, revised, rewriting, search, sinai, studies, updated, world, zionists books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: CIA, Inc: Espionage & the Craft of Business Intelligence we recommend The appraisal is fair.... leave a comment home  impressum - about us