The British Army in Palestine and the 1948 War: Containment, Withdrawal and Evacuation

ISBN-13: 9781032086071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 308 str.

Alon Kadish

Opis

Following the end of the Second World War the main mission of the British Army in Palestine was to contain Jewish attacks and illegal immigration while the fate of the Mandate was being decided. This book is a record of the British Army during the final year and its impact on the course and outcome of the 1948 war.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Soldiering in Palestine 1947-1948  2. The Southern Sector  3. Railways  4. The Road to Jaffa, the Road to Jerusalem  5. Jerusalem  6. The Galilee and Haifa  7. Jaffa  8. The Course of the Evacuation  9. Some Final Observations and Conclusion  Acknowledgements  Appendix

O autorze

Alon Kadish served in the Engineers Corps, Israeli Defence Force, rank Lt.-Col. (res.). He received his bachelor’s degree in arts from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and D.Phil. from Oxford University. He taught at the History Department of the Hebrew University from 1980 to 2019 and in the Israel Defence Force (IDF) Command and Staff College and Tactical Command College. He was the Head of IDF History Department at the General Staff during 2007–2014. He has published and edited, mainly in Hebrew, books and articles on Israeli military history, mostly on the 1948 War.