This highly-regarded history gives a balanced and judicious introduction to this immensely complex and controversial subject, weaving different strands of the story into a single coherent narrative, thus making it essential reading for all students studying conflict in the Middle East. Of all the troubles affecting the modern world few are as topical, deep rooted and intractable as the Arab-Israeli conflict. For this region, an understanding of the past is vital to an understanding of the present. Ritchie Ovendale's classic study of the roots of the conflict is now updated for a fourth time and considers events until 2003.
ORIGINS OF MODERN WARS General editor: Harry Hearder Titles already published: THE ORIGINS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS T.C.W. Blanning THE ORIGINS OF THE CRIMEAN WAR David M. Goldfrank THE ORIGINS OF THE ITALIAN WARS OF INDEPENDENCE Frank J. Coppa THE ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR Brian Holden Reid THE ORIGINS OF THE WARS OF GERMAN UNIFICATION William Carr THE ORIGINS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899–1902 Iain R. Smith THE ORIGINS OF THE RUSSO–JAPANESE WAR Ian Nish THE ORIGINS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR (Third Edition) James Joll THE ORIGINS OF THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR Geoffrey Swain THE ORIGINS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN EUROPE (Second Edition) P.M.H. Bell THE ORIGINS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC Akira Iriye THE ORIGINS OF THE GREEK CIVIL WAR David H. Close THE ORIGINS OF THE KOREAN WAR (Second Edition) Peter Lowe THE ORIGINS OF THE VIETNAM WAR Anthony Short THE ORIGINS OF THE ARAB–ISRAELI WARS (Fourth Edition) Ritchie Ovendale THE ORIGINS OF THE PRESENT TROUBLES IN NORTHERN IRELAND Caroline Kennedy-Pipe
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