1st Edition
The British Army in Palestine and the 1948 War Containment, Withdrawal and Evacuation
Introduction
1. Soldiering in Palestine 1947-1948
2. The Southern Sector
3. Railways
4. The Road to Jaffa, the Road to Jerusalem
5. Jerusalem
6. The Galilee and Haifa
7. Jaffa
8. The Course of the Evacuation
9. Some Final Observations and Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Appendix
Biography
Alon Kadish served in the Engineers Corps, Israeli Defence Force, rank Lt.-Col. (res.). He received his bachelor’s degree in arts from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and D.Phil. from Oxford University. He taught at the History Department of the Hebrew University from 1980 to 2019 and in the Israel Defence Force (IDF) Command and Staff College and Tactical Command College. He was the Head of IDF History Department at the General Staff during 2007–2014. He has published and edited, mainly in Hebrew, books and articles on Israeli military history, mostly on the 1948 War.
