@article{331868,
      recid = {331868},
      author = {Morris, Benny,},
      title = {1948 : a history of the first Arab-Israeli war /},
      publisher = {Yale University Press,},
      address = {New Haven [Conn.] :},
      pages = {xiv, 524 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli  conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply  revisionist. Besides the military account, it also focuses  on the war's political dimensions. Historian Morris probes  the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of  newly opened Israeli and Western documentation. The Arab  side--where the archives are still closed--is illuminated  with the help of intelligence and diplomatic materials.  Morris stresses the jihadi character of the two-stage Arab  assault on the Jewish community in Palestine. He examines  the dialectic between the war's military and political  developments and highlights the military impetus in the  creation of the Palestinian refugee problem. He looks both  at high politics and general staff decision-making and at  the nitty-gritty of combat in the battles that resulted in  the emergence of the State of Israel and the humiliation of  the Arab world--a humiliation that underlies the continued  Arab antagonism toward Israel.--From publisher  description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/331868},
}