This is a story of ethnic violence and terrorism in Palestine under the British mandate, as the territory was about to become the state of Israel. It concerns two British sergeants kidnapped and later...
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Cecily Mackworth
Arriving in Israel just after a Jewish terrorist attackCM
reports how she found the streets of Jerusalem full of tense, trigger-happy young British soldiers. Gershon Agronsky
, editor of the Palestine Post,
Mackworth, Cecily. The Mouth of the Sword. Routledge and K. Paul, 1949.
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22 July 1946: Members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi (Military-National...
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22 July 1946
Members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi
(Military-National Organization in Hebrew) blew up British General Headquarters in the King David Hotel, Jerusalem, killing ninety-one people.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
