Benny Morris has written a book with the above title.
The NYT has said, “The history of the 1948 war desperately needs to be told, since it’s so barely understood or remembered and since so many of the issues that plague us today had their roots in that struggle.”
This book focuses on what happened during that important year, how the Arabs were forced from their homes, and if you visit the NYT article, you can see a black and white photo of tired men, women and children walking with their belongings.
The NYT reviewer also noted, “Deep inside Morris’s book is an authoritative and fair-minded account of an epochal and volatile event. He has reconstructed that event with scrupulous exactitude. But despite its prodigious research and keen analysis, “1948” can be exasperatingly tedious. The battlefield accounts, dense with obscure place names and weapons inventories, are so unrelenting, and unrelentingly dry, that you are grateful for the full-page maps (which themselves are hard to follow). The narrative cries out for air and anecdote and color.”
Keeping that in mind, the product description states, “Morris looks both at high politics and general staff decision-making processes and at the nitty-gritty of combat in the successive battles that resulted in the emergence of the State of Israel and the humiliation of the Arab world, a humiliation that underlies the continued Arab antagonism toward Israel.”
Yale University Press is the publisher, and visit the NYT article here.
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