Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The battle for jerusalem: an unintended conquest (50th anniversary edition), paperback/abraham rabinovich

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Contributor(s):Author: Abraham Rabinovich Including a chapter on post-war Jerusalem Prose that is as graphic as it is lucid.

The Battle for Jerusalem is deservedly acclaimed as a classic of its genre.

Howard M.

Sachar, author of A History of Israel.

Extraordinarily dramatic.

Edward N.

Luttwak, author of Stategy: The Logic of War and Peace Abraham Rabinovich arrived in Jerusalem five days before the Six Day War as a reporter for an American newspaper.

He covered the battle for the city and was on the Temple Mount a few hours after its capture.

To understand the momentous events he had witnessed, he subsequently interviewed 300 soldiers, officials and civilians.

The conquest of the Old City, a major event in modern Middle East history, was something that Israel's leaders had not planned and that some of them did not want.

The book was written soon after the war, when memories were fresh.

The current revised edition expands the context, political and military, and offers new perspective from both sides of the battlefield.

With the outbreak of war with Egypt, Israel sought to avoid a second front.

Hours after Jordan opened artillery fire, Israel refrained from substantive retaliation as it sought a cease-fire.

Only after Jordanian troops penetrated the Jewish city did Israel respond on the ground, and even then in measured stages.

The Israeli cabinet was divided over capture of the Old City.

It was, surprisingly, the religious ministers who argued against it most vigorously.

They feared that Israel could not stand up to international pressure if it annexed an entity that was not just the cradle of Jewish history but also sacred to Christianity and Islam.

However, events created a vacuum on the West Bank into which Israel was inexorably pulled, step by step.

We witness the heated debate in Jordanian military headquarters where King Hussein had handed over command of his army to an Egyptian general.

The latter's strategy was designed to meet Egypt's needs,.