O Jerusalem! by Collins, Larry Lapierre, Dominique - 1972

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972. First Edition, 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very Good-/Fair. Signed. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Black cloth boards with blindstamped titling on front, gilt titling on spine; light edgewear and sunfading to edges. Binding is sound. Pastedowns illustrated with maps of Jerusalem and Palestine. Previous owner taped an original photo to the FEP opposite the title page and labeled it as a photo of Larry Collins. Signed by Larry Collins on title page. Interior is otherwise unmarked. Upper page edges toned has a light brown stained area. Unpriceclipped dustjacket is heavily chipped along edges. Thick 8vo. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Co-authored by Dominique Lapierre. Illustrated in two sections of B&W photography. 'At the center of this massive and brilliant new book by the authors of Is Paris Burning? and Or I'll Dress You in Mourning is the most universal of man's cities: Jerusalem, the mystic heart of three great religions, condemned to pay for the passions stirred by its stones by being through forty centuries, the most bitterly disputed site in the world. Their story--the fruit of five years of intensive research and many thousands of interviews--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, for the first time, is an account of that struggle which 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.' (-from the endflap). Includes bibliography and index. Bibliography: p. 595-604. 637 p. illus. 24 cm.