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Original Title:	Israel
ISBN:	0552995452 (ISBN13: 9780552995450)

Israel: A History

Martin Gilbert

Paperback | Pages: 786 pages

Rating: 4.05 | 647 Users | 49 Reviews

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Israel is a small and relatively young country, but its turbulent history has placed it squarely at the centre of the world stage for most of this century. For two millennia the Jews, dispersed all over the world, prayed for a return to Zion. Until the nineteenth century, that dream seemed a fantasy, but then a secular Zionist movement was born and soon the initial trickle of Jewish immigrants to Palestine turned into a flood as Jews fled persecution in Europe. From these beginnings, Martin Gilbert traces the events and personalities that would lead to the sudden, dramatic declaration of Statehood in May 1948.





From that point on, Israel's history has been dominated by conflict: Suez, the Six Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the Lebanon and the Intifada. Using contemporary documents and eyewitness accounts, drawing on his own intimate knowledge of the country and its people, Martin Gilbert weaves together a seamless, page-turning history of a powerful and proud nation.

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Title	:	Israel: A History
Author	:	Martin Gilbert
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 786 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1999 by Black Swan (first published 1998)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Cultural. Israel. Literature. Jewish. Religion. Judaism

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Ratings: 4.05 From 647 Users | 49 Reviews

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First, let me say that the history of the nation of Israel is a fascinating story, but its hard to tell it from this journalistic scrap book cut and paste job telling of events with no attempt to integrate or explain.From what I can tell (Gilbert doesn't help with this) the unsettled situation in Israel that has descended from occasional national wars to continual regional terrorism stems from some primary facts about Israel:1. In 1948, after the nation was declared, there was a massive exchange

I picked up this book after being verbally assaulted by a number of co-workers in a rather heated discussion on the Middle East. (Are there any other kinds?) Although I felt I had a reasonable sense of the historical context of Israel, well it seemed the prudent thing to do get us much information as possible. I could have bought any number of books but as Mr Gilbert seemed to have a soft spot for Churchill (as do I ) this seemed like a good choice, despite its size! It's well written and well

Too political/war focused, not enough about culture

Honestly I could not push myself to finish this book. I find Gilbert's long winded story of Arab-Israeli War (Independence war, war of attrition and Yom Kippur war) extremely wasteful. His story is engrossed on war manoeuvre and less concentration on its consequences particularly on Israeli/Palestinians. He went far on detailing the sprouts of kibbutz which I personally find repetitive. Nevertheless I commend his research on overall history of Israel.

Enjoyed that but at times a bit tough going, especially the constant diversions in the first part of the book to document every single settlement as it's founded. I enjoyed the last 30% of the book the most, but suspect this was due to the fact it covered events (Lebanon War, the PLO, peace process) I remember from the news when growing up. One thing about the book is you need to have a pretty good understanding of the geography of Israel/Sinai, as much of the narrative deals with the ever

Very well written! In this book Martin Gilbert presents to the reader the trials and tribulations of creating or establishing Israel as a country from the physical and political viewpoints. Certainly this was no easy task when its Arab neighbors attacked it before and after its declaration of independence and in its wars since. The book's narrative does slow down a bit near the end when it tries to present Israel's attempts to deal with terrorism but this does not take away from the reader's

Martin Gilbert's Israel: A History offers a comprehensive account of the development and rise of the State of Israel from the development of political Zionism in the mid-1800s to the aftermath of the peace process following the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. This 2008 edition also includes new chapters covering the period from 2000 to 2007 which, while they fall outside the book's primary historical arc, are still interesting and informative.Gilbert takes something of a "Great Man"