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(0)Gershom Gorenberg
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English
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After the 1967 war, the Jewish state seemed to have reached the pinnacle of success. But the Six-Day War proved to be the opening act of a complex political drama, in which the central issue became: Should Jews build settlements in the occupied territories taken in that war? Drawing on newly opened archives and extensive interviews, this is journalist Gorenberg's account of the strange birth of the settler movement, the child of both Labor Party socialism...
2) War of shadows: codebreakers, spies, and the secret struggle to drive the Nazis from the Middle East
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xix, 474 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"As World War II rages in North Africa, General Irwin Rommel marches his troops swiftly through Egypt, aiming to overrun he entire Middle East. An uncanny sense of his enemies' weaknesses and positions informs each move. The Nazis, somehow, have a source for the Allies' greatest secrets. Yet Rommel is not the only one with stolen knowledge. Allied cryptographers are breaking the extraordinarily complex Nazi code Enigma. On the brink of disaster, a...