Israel's Wars: A History Since 1947

By Ahron Bregman

Book Overview

Israel's Wars is a fascinating and essential insight into the turbulent history of this troubled country which, since its foundation, has endured almost constant violence. Bringing its coverage up to date with recent conflicts, this fourth edition includes a new chapter on the Gaza wars from 2007-2014, a new preface and an updated concluding chapter.

From the 1947-8 Jewish-Palestinian struggle for mastery of the land of Palestine to the Al-Aqsa intifada, the second Lebanon war and the Gaza wars, Bregman exposes hitherto unknown facts, including details of secret Soviet involvement in inciting the 1967 Six Day War, Israeli bombing of the American warship the USS Liberty, and Israeli assassinations of leading Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Illustrated throughout with maps and photographs, this new edition is valuable reading for students of Arab-Israeli conflicts over the last seventy years.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138905364
• ISBN13: 9781138905368
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Top Flight Introduction.

A subtitle for this book could have been, "Just the Action Please," because that's exactly what these 200+ pages contain. For slightly ignorant readers like this reviewer, Israel's Wars fills us in about a nation's history with clear and unbiased prose. As a matter of fact, I think that objectivity is almost as much a point in Bregman's favor as is brevity. The author gives us an outline from which we can fill in specific events at a later time (with the aid of single theme books). I had no idea before opening it just how much the 1982 Invasion of Lebanon was a turning point in Israel's history, and just how conflicted were the decisions of Ariel Sharon. One longs to go back in time and cancel out the occupation of Gaza as it has brought so much misery to everyone involved. At any rate, Israel's War is a magnificent introduction to a fascinating subject.