Recommended Books on History of Israel
Memoirs of Key Historic Figures and a few other books
Memoirs of key historic figures (and a few other books):
history of Israel,
struggle for establishment of the Jewish state and independence,
Jewish immigration, survival, and wars of liberation and defense
Jewish Legion, Hagana, Irgun (IZL, Etzel), Lehi, Af Al Pi, Ha'apalah, HCNL, WZO, NZO, Betar
Prime Ministers, ministers, military leaders, commanders, diplomats
Essential library: Israel history
Videos on satellite orbits –
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Mike's books
Israel's space program
Participants
(alphabetically)
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Avraham (Bren) Adan, On the Banks of the Suez, Presidio Press, Novato, CA, 1980
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Yigal Allon, Shield of David: The story of Israel's armed forces, Weidenfeld and Nicolson; 1970
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Moshe Arens, In Defense of Israel: A Memoir of a Political Life, Brookings Institution Press, 2018
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Ehud Barak, My Country, My Life: Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace, St. Martin's Press, 2018
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Menachem Begin, The Revolt, Dell, 1978
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Menachem Begin, White nights: The story of a prisoner in Russia, Harper and Row, 1979
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Yitshaq Ben-Ami, Years of Wrath, Days of Glory: Memoirs from the Irgun, Robert Speller and Sons, 1982
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David Ben-Gurion, Israel: A Personal History, Funk and Wagnalls, Inc. / Sabra Books, 1971
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Robert Briscoe with Alden Hatch, For the Life of Me, Longmans, 1958
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Geula Cohen, Women of violence: Memoirs of a young terrorist, 1943-1948, Hart-Davis, 1966
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Moshe Dayan, Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life: An Autobiography, Morrow and Co., New York, 1976
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Abba Eban, Abba Eban: An Autobiography, Futura Publication, 1977
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U. Eilam, Eilam's Arc. How Israel Became a Military Technology Powerhouse, Sussex, 2011
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U. Eilam, Night Raiders: The Story of the Legendary Unit 101 During the IDF Retribution Operations, 2021
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Yaacov Eliav, Wanted, Shengold Publishers, New York, 1984
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Levi Eshkol, Moshe Dayan, Yizhak Rabin, The 6 Days War, Israel Ministry of Defense, 1967
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Efraim Halevy, Man in the Shadows. Inside the Middle East Crisis with the Man Who Led the Mossad, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006
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Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century, Yale University Press, 1954, 2020
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Theodore Herzl. The Jewish State. Proposal of a modern solution to the Jewish question, 1917, 2018.
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Chaim Herzog, The Arab-Israeli Wars: War and Peace in the Middle East, Vintage, 2005
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V. Jabotinsky, The Story of the Jewish Legion, Bernard Ackerman,1945
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V. Jabotinsky, B. Horowitz (ed.), L. Katsis (ed.), Vladimir Jabotinsky's Story of My Life, Wayne State University Press, 2015
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V. Jabotinsky (by M. Sarig, Sh.Feder, D.Carpi), The Political and Social Philosophy of Ze'ev Jabotinsky: Selected Writings, Vallentine Mitchell, London and Portland, OR, 1999
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Josephus, The Jewish War, OUP Oxford, 2017
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Avigdor Kahalani, The Heights of Courage: A Tank Leader's War On the Golan, Praeger, 1992
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Samuel Katz, Days of Fire. The Secret History of the Irgun Zvai Leumi and the making of Israel, Doubleday; other publishers, 1968
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Teddy Kollek, For Jerusalem: A life, Random House, 1978
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Eliahu Lankin, To Win the Promised Land: Story of a Freedom Fighter, Benmir Books, Walnut Creek, 1992
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W.C. Lowdermilk, Palestine, Land of Promise, Harper, 1944
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James G. McDonald, My Mission in Israel 1948-1951, Sagwan Press, 1951, 2015
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Richard Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diary, 1917-1956, Cresset Press, London, 1959
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Golda Meir, My Life, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1975
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Ya'akov Meridor, Long is the road to freedom, Sparks and Co., 1985
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Benjamin Netanyahu, Bibi: My Story, Threshold Editions, 2022
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J.H. Patterson, With the Judeans in the Palestine Campaign, Hutchinson and Co., 1922, Echo Library, 2014
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Shimon Peres, No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel, Custom House, 2017
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Yitzhak Rabin, The Rabin Memoirs, University of California Press, 1996
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Yitzhak Shamir, Summing Up. An Autobiography, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1994
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Zeev Sharef, Three Days (May 12, 13, and 14, 1948), W H Allen, London, 1962
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Moshe Sharett, My Struggle for Peace: The Diary of Moshe Sharett, 1953-1954, Indiana University Press, 2019
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Ariel Sharon with David Chanoff, Warrior. Autobiography of Ariel Sharon, Touchstone, New York, 2001
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Ezer Weizman, On Eagles' Wing: The Personal Story of the Leading Commander of the Israeli Air Force, Macmillan Pub Co, 1977
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Chaim Weizmann, Trial and Error, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1949
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Nathan Yalin-Mor, Israel, Israel. Histoire du groupe Stern (1940-1948), Presses De La Renaissance, 1978
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Antagonists
(alphabetically)
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Glubb Pasha (J.B. Glubb), A Soldier With The Arabs, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1957
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Josephus, The Jewish War, OUP Oxford, 2017
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Geoffrey J. Morton, Just the Job. Some Experience of a Colonial Policeman, Horder and Stoughton, London, 1957
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Saad el Shazly, The Crossing of the Suez, American Mideast Research, 2003
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By journalists, writers, scholars
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G.W. Gawrych, The 1973 Arab-Israeli War: The Albatross of Decisive Victory The Yom Kippur War. (Leavenworth Papers, N. 21), US Army Command and General Staff College, 1996
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G.W. Gawrych, The Albatross of Decisive Victory: War and Policy Between Egypt and Israel in the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli Wars, Praeger, 2000
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Abraham Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War. The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East, Schocken Books, New York, 2004
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Laurence Weinbaum, A Marriage of Convenience. The New Zionist Organization and the Polish Government, 1936-1939, East European Monographs, Boulder, 1993
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Pierre Van Paassen, The Forgotten Ally, Dial Press, New York, 1943 (Hassel Street Press, 2021)
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Israel's Space Program, 2004 (pdf)
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Books on history of astronautics, rocketry, and space
Science and engineering books on astronautics, rocketry, and space
Books on missile defense
other rocket science stuff
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