O Jerusalem!

• Preface to the Revised Edition
• Prologue
• PART ONE: JERUSALEM: ‘A TIME TO MOURN AND A TIME TO DANCE’
  1. Decision at Flushing Meadow
  2. ‘At Last We Are a Free People’
  3. ‘Papa Has Returned’
  4. Two Passengers to Prague
  5. Two Peoples, Two Armies
  6. ‘We Will Strangle Jerusalem’
• PART TWO: JERUSALEM: A HOUSE AGAINS ITSELF
  1. ‘Are We Not Neighbours . . .?
  2. The Santa Claus of the Haganah
  3. Journey to Absurdity
  4. ‘Bab El Wad on the Road to the City’
  5. Golda Meir’s Twenty-Five ‘Stephans’
  6. ‘Salvation Comes from the Sky’
  7. ‘We Shall Become as Hard as Stone’
  8. A Flash of White Light
  9. An Unlikely Lawrence
  10. The Haberdasher from Kansas City
  11. The Convoy Will Not Arrive
• PART THREE: JERUSALEM: A CITY BESIEGED
  1. A House in the Middle of Hell
  2. ‘Hang on to Jerusalem with Your Teeth’
  3. Six Words on a Bumper
  4. ‘One of the Arabs We Killed Last Night’
  5. The Peace of Deir Yassin
  6. ‘Shalom, My Dear . . .’
  7. ‘Attack and Attack and Attack’
  8. A Message from Glubb Pasha
  9. ‘We Shall Come Back’
  10. ‘Throw Stones and Die’
  11. By Just One Vote
  12. The Last Supper
  13. The Fifth Day of Iyar
• PART FOUR: JERUSALEM: A CITY DIVIDED
  1. ‘These Shall Stand’
  2. ‘The Most Beautiful Month of the Year’
  3. ‘Go Save Jerusalem’
  4. ‘A Lament for a Generation’
  5. ‘Yosef Has Saved Jerusalem’
  6. ‘Take Latrun’
  7. Ticket to a Promised Land
  8. ‘Execute Your Task at All Costs’
  9. The Wheatfields of Latrun
  10. ‘. . . Remember Me Only in Happiness’
  11. ‘Goodnight and Goodbye from Jerusalem’
  12. ‘We’ll Open a New Road’
  13. ‘The Arab people Will Never Forgive Us’
  14. A Toast to the Living
  15. The Thirty-Day Pause
  16. The Flawed Trumpet
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

As relevant today as it was in 1948 when the conflict began, the book’s ‘newness’ lies in the intimate, heart-wrenching Preface by Dominique Lapierre, the surviving author of the best-selling duo. Hailed as an apolitical, unbiased account of living history,

O Jerusalem! traverses the partition of Palestine into two distinct States, the departure of the British, the birth of Israel, and the state of a conflict between Arabs and Jews that has since, never ceased to rage.

• A 16-page photo layout showcases the authors’ meeting with David Ben-Gurion, the founder of Israel, and Golda Meir, as also scenes from the French film O Jerusalem!
• For a whole new generation of readers, this revised and enlarged format unfolds a topical subject that contiues to impact the world.