<p>For thousands of years, Palestine has been a land of conflict.  Even before the first skirmishes between Arab and Jew, it was a battleground where empires clashed and nomadic tribes scuffled for local advantage.  But with the strife-torn birth of Isreal and the concurrent flareup of Arab nationalism, an even more lethal quarrel erupted-a long war waged by men with different dreams whose only common ground was raw courage and the conviction of an ideal.  Here, J. Bowyer Bell chronicles this extended conflict, from the disintergration of the British Mandate in 1946 to the Six Days' War of 1967 that splintered all hope of peace and once again placed the Middle East in the world's headlines.The bloody history of Arab-Israeli relations is seen as a single military operation that, in continuity, intensity, and complexity, is second only to the Thirty Years' War.  Its fronts have ranged from the quiet halls of embassies to the sandy borders of the Suez Canal; its methods have included everything from acid journalism and distorted statistics to assissination and guided missiles.Through his vivid recreation of the political and social frictions, the border incidents, battles, and campaigns, J. Bowyer Bell illuminates this woefully mishandled conflict, placing sensational incidents in their proper context and exhuming still others that defy oversimplification.  He brings to life the heroic and exciting personalities that the long war has produced-the Grand Mufti, Nasser, Ben-Guiron, Hussein of Jordan, Ernest Bevin, Dayan, the underground fighters, briliant military leaders, secret agents- and leaves nothing uncovered in the dark and convoluted ground of comtemporary Middle Eastern history.</p>

The long war;: Israel and the Arabs since 1946,

History

Bell, J.Bowyer

Middle East

PRENTICE/HALL

The secret army: a history of the I.R.A., 1916-1970,

Blond

The Secret Army traces the history of the IRA from its roots in the eighteenth-century republicanism of Wolfe Tone to the glorious years of 1916-1921, and on through the thirties and World War II, to the fifties campaign, the quieter sixties, and the eruption of violence since then.

The secret army: The IRA, 1916-1979

MIT Press]

Secret Army the Ira 1974

The Secret Army: The Ira, 1916-1979

Europe

Mit Pr

Assassination as a political act has a long history, predating the murder of Julius Caesar and continuing into our own time. The murder of the mighty has long fascinated artists and rebels but only rarely has it been studied in a scholarly manner. In Assassin, J. Bowyer Bell combines existing historical evidence with years of personal interviews with terrorists in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. The result is an incisive study of that enigmatic figure, the revolutionary killer. As Bell makes clear, the motives of the actors, and effectiveness of assassination, vary widely across time and place. Assassination in many parts of the world has not only been a normal political act, rational, explicable, but also often effective, in some cases taking fewer lives in the transfer of power than an election. Likewise, there have been all kinds of assassins--personal, psychopathic, professional, ranging from lonely failures trying to make their mark to authorized agents of the state. Using the assassination of Henry IV of France as a historical backdrop, Bell writes about contemporary political murder from the perspective of one who has studied the subject of political violence for decades. Bell has met with or known well the perpetrators, conspirators, and intended victims of assassination who have escaped. His interviewees include a radical Irish revolutionary leader, an American Arabist diplomat, a spokesman for the PLO, and the president of a Mozambique liberation movement. The itinerary of his investigative journeys covers most of the flashpoints of contemporary political violence.The people and places studied here at firsthand are engaged in a deadly game. The attrition rate is often high, the power fleeting, and the consequences often unforeseen. If past is prologue, assassination is to be with us for years to come. The volume will be essential reading for those engaged in the prevention of political violence and terror as well as historians and political scientists.

Assassin!

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

St.Martin's Press

<p>Traces the history of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past twenty-five years, explains why attempts at resolving the crisis have failed, and discusses how the media has helped to promote a superficial image of the situation</p>

The Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence 1967-1992

Americas

St Martins Pr

Terror out of Zion: Irgun Zvai Leumi, LEHI, and the Palestine underground, 1929-1949

St. Martin's Pr

Terror Out of Zion: Irgun Zvai Leumi, Lehi and the Palestine Underground, 1929-1949

Avon/Books

The myth of the guerrilla;: Revolutionary theory and malpractice

KNOPF

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