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The End of the British Mandate for Palestine, 1948

The Diary of Sir Henry Gurney

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Authors:
  1. Motti Golani

    1. Department of Israeli Studies, University of Haifa, Israel

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Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Diary and the Diarist

    • Motti Golani
    Pages 1-22

  3. Real Time and Researcher’s Time

    • Motti Golani
    Pages 23-23

  4. Annotated Diary and Perspectives

    • Motti Golani
    Pages 24-210

  5. Epilogue

    • Motti Golani
    Pages 211-217

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 218-245
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About this book

Henry Gurney was the last Chief Secretary of the Mandate Government of Palestine. From mid-March to mid-May 1948, at his HQ in Jerusalem's King David Hotel, he wrote his diary under fire from Jews and Arabs alike, with both groups taking aim at the British Administration as the Mandate drew to a close and the country spiralled into violence.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Israeli Studies, University of Haifa, Israel

    Motti Golani

About the author

MOTTI GOLANI is Historian of the British Mandate and Israel at the University of Haifa, Israel and a former Senior Member at St. Antony's College, Oxford. His books include: Israel in Search of a War, Sinai Campaign, 1955-1956, Wars Don't Just Happen', Israeli memory, power and free will, and forthcoming, The Last Commissioner of Judah: Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham in Palestine, 1945-1948, to be published by the Weizmann Institute of Tel Aviv University.

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