A history of Israel : from the rise of Zionism to our time / Howard M. Sachar by Sachar, Howard Morley (1928-2018) - 2010

New York : Alred A. Knopf, 2010. 3rd ed., rev. and updated. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.. Physical description; xxii, 1270 pages : maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 1135-1207) and index. Contents; The rise of Jewish nationalism -- The beginning of the Return -- Herzl and the rise of political Zionism -- The growth of the Yishuv -- The Balfour Declaration -- The establishment of the mandate -- Building the Jewish national home -- The seeds of Arab-Jewish confrontation -- Britain repudiates the Jewish national home -- Palestine in World War II -- The Yishuv repudiates the mandate -- The birth of Israel -- The war of independence -- The growth of the Israeli republic -- Ingathering and the struggle for economic survival -- The search for peace and security -- Sinai and Suez -- Years of economic and social growth -- A decade of political and diplomatic achievement -- Cultural and ideological currents -- The Six-Day War -- Israel as empire -- Israel and world Jewry -- The War of the Day of Judgment -- Aftermath of an earthquake -- The Likud era begins -- An accommodation with Egypt -- Romantic nationalism and Realpolitik -- Revisionism at the apogee -- Israel in Lebanon -- A crisis of Israeli spirit, of diaspora loyalty -- The era of unity governments -- The wages of immobilism -- A tormented road to peace -- A deterioration of the Rabin-Peres legacy -- Ehud Barak's two years -- The bulldozer as prime minister -- The bulldozer as statesman -- Israel faces the Twenty-first Century -- A mottled landscape -- A Middle Eastern hour of decision. Subjects; Zionism History. Middle East Palestine. Israel History. Palestine History (1917-1948), British Mandate period.