S.Chand O Jerusalem

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