The Palestine Triangle: The struggle for the Holy Land, 1935-48 - Hardcover

The Palestine Triangle : The Struggle Between the British, the Jews and the Arabs, 1935-48.London: Andre Deutsch , 1979. The author has unearthed startling new evidence about many of the most controversial issues: the Arab revolts of the 1930s, the little death-ships and the King David Hotel explosion, planned by Irgun guerrilla fighters under Menachem Begin. He has fully investigated the activities of all the various terrorist movements, both Jewish and Arab, as well as the measures taken against them by the British authorities, and suggests that some of the most notorious acts of violence, especially the assassination of Lord Moyne, did indeed have an effect on the decision-makers. He has examined numerous government archives recently made available, and has interviewed scores of participants - politicians, terrorists, soldiers and policemen - who have only now broken their silence. His exposure of behind-the-scenes activities leads him to the inescapable conclusion that expediency and personal emotions played a much greater part in determining the course of events than has hitherto been acknowledged. Step-by-step, often with the emotion but always with fairness, the author skilfully unfolds one of the most tragic stories of our time - and Britain's failure to fulfill the terms of her mandate and of broken promises on all sides.