1st Edition

Decision on Palestine Deferred America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy, 1939-1945

By Monty Noam Penkower Copyright 2003
404 Pages
by Routledge

402 Pages
by Routledge

402 Pages
by Routledge

Professor Penkower's latest book, Decision on Palestine Deferred, offers the first sustained, documented account of Palestine and the Anglo-American alliance during the Second World War. Firmly grounded in three decades of archival research, his spirited narrative offers a fascinating cast of characters against the backdrop of the larger Middle Eastern context. The latter relates to Jewish and... Read more
an important addition to the histories of both wartime diplomacy and the foundation of Israel"

- Middle East Journal

Biography

Monty Noam Penkower

'Decision on Palestine Deferred provides an invaluable contribution to Holocaust and World War II scholarship, as well as the history of the creation of the State of Israel. Whereas historians have tended to address each subject separately, Penkower details their important interrelationship.' - Middle East Quarterly