Publisher Description
At the center of this massive and brilliant book is the most universal of man’s cities: Jerusalem, the mystic heart of three great religions, condemned to pay for the passions it inspires by being, through forty centuries, the most bitterly disputed site in the world.
Collins and Lapierre’s story is the fruit of five years of intensive research and many thousands of interviews. It is the epic drama of 1948, in which the Arabs and the Jews, heirs to generations of bitter conflict in a land sacred to them both, fought each other for the city of Jerusalem and for the hopes of fulfillment it represented to each. Here is the account of that struggle that encompasses the full spectrum of its participants, whose experiences, emotions, and acts of bravery have been meticulously brought together and illumined in this monumental and dramatic work.
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“A minutely detailed, meticulously documented of the momentous creation of the Jewish state. Of the freedom struggle, the trials and tribulations which preceded the actual announcement of the creation of Israel. The bravery of the 1000s of jews who bravely laid down their lives for the most noble cause in their eyes. It is simply ‘unputdownable’.”
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Abhijit (5 out of 5 stars)
