A history of Israel from the rise of Zionism to our time by Sachar, Howard Morley 1928-

Table of Contents: “…Rise of Jewish nationalism -- Beginning of the return -- Herzl and the rise of political Zionism -- Growth of the Yishuv -- Balfour declaration -- Establishment of the mandate -- Building the Jewish national home -- Seeds of Arab-Jewish confrontation -- Britain repudiates the Jewish national home -- Palestine in World War II -- Yishuv repudiates the mandate -- Birth of Israel -- War of independence -- Growth of Israeli republic -- Ingathering and the struggle for economic survival -- Search for peace and security -- Sinai and Suez -- Years of economic and social growth -- Decade of political and diplomatic achievement -- Cultural and ideological currents -- Six-Day War -- Israel as empire -- Israel and world Jewry -- War of the Day of Judgment -- Aftermath of an earthquake -- Likud era begins -- Accommodation with Egypt -- Romantic nationalism and realpolitik -- Revisionism at the apogee -- Israel in Lebanon -- Crisis of Israeli spirit, of diaspora loyalty -- Era of unity governments -- Wages of immobilism -- Tormented road to peace -- Mottled landscape, an appraisal at half century.…”