Why and How was Palestine Partitioned?

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Primary Sources

Richard Crossman, Palestine Mission: A Personal Record, (1947)

R.M. Graves, Experiment in Anarchy, (1949)

Harry S. Truman, Memoirs by Harry S. Truman, 1945: Year of Decisions, (1955)

Harry S. Truman, Memoirs by Harry S. Truman, 1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope, (1955)

Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation: Years in the State Department, (1969)

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Chaim Weizman, Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann, (1949)

David Ben-Gurion, Israel: A Personal History, (1973)

Moshe Dayan, Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life, (1976)

Yitzhak Rabin, The Rabin Memoirs, (1996)

Menachem Begin, The Revolt, Revised Edition, (1978)

Yitzhak Shamir, Summing Up: An Autobiography, (1994)

Moshe Arens, In Defense of Israel: A Memoir of a Political Life, (2018)

Ariel Sharon, David Chanoff, Warrior: An Autobiography, (1989)

Golda Meir, My Life, (1975)

Walter Laqueur, Barry Rubin edt., The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict; Sixth Edition, (2001)

The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, Report to the General Assembly, (August 31, 1947)

Secondary Sources

Dan Kurzman, Genesis 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War, (1970)

Peter Mansfield, The Arab World: A Comprehensive History, (1976)

Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples, (1991)

Tom Segev, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, (2000)

Benny Morris, Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001, (2001)

Baruch Kimmerling, Joel S. Migdal, The Palestinian People: A History, (2003)

Howard M. Sachar, A History of Israel from the Rise of Zionism to Our Time, Third Edition, (2007)

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Benny Morris, 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, (2008)

Hillel Cohen, Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948, (2008)

Allis Radosh, Ronald Radosh, A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel, (2009)

Ilan Pappe, The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty: The Husaynis, 1700-1948, (2010)

Efraim Karsh, Palestine Betrayed, (2010)

Matthew Gray, Conspiracies in the Arab World, (2010)

John McHugo, Syria: A History of the Last Hundred Years, (2015)

Daniel Gordis, Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn, (2016)

Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, (2017)

Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations, (2018)

Moshe Shemesh, The Palestinian National Revival: In the Shadow of the Leadership Crisis, 1937-1967, (2018)

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