Promotional Information

This book won the W.J.M Mackenzie Prize.

Reviews

`offers a penetrating analysis of the Zionist/Israeli-Abdullah relationship, full of relevatons derived from Shlaim's extensive archival research and interviews with surviving political and miliatry fitures of the period ... lively recounting of secret correspondence and clandestine meetings ... Shlaim brings to life the day-to-day history of the pivotal period of Israel's birth'
Neil Caplan, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol.36,No.2, 2001