The Twentieth Century in Eretz Israel: A Pictorial History

617 pp. "This mighty volume devotes itself in words and pictures to the history of Israel. Events throughout the twentieth century are traced in detail, decade for decade. The Ottoman Empire, the period of the British Mandate in Palestine, the birth of the State of Israel following several decades of conflict between Jews and Palestinians... The book follows Jewish immigration; it documents day-to-day life in peacetime and war--from the War of Independence to the Six Day War and the Gulf War in the early 1990s; it covers the strained efforts to unite Israelis, Palestinians and the Arab states up to the 1993 peace treaty--and the assassination of Itzhak Rabin. ...contains approximately 2,000 color and black and white photographs, some of them rare, along with illustrations, caricatures, and maps."