Research Catalog

Title

Years of wrath, days of glory : memoirs from the Irgun / by Yitshaq Ben-Ami.

Author

• ‏בן־עמי, יצחק
• Ben-Ami, Yitshaq

Publication

New York, N.Y. : R. Speller, ©1982.

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Details

Description

601 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Ben-Ami, Yitshaq
• Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 1880-1940
• Irgun tsevaʼi leʼumi
• Irgun Zwai Leumi
• 1939-1949
• Geschichte 1932-1948
• Jews > Palestine > Biography
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
• Jews
• Autobiografie
• Erlebnisbericht
• Palästinakrieg
• Israel
• Middle East > Palestine

Genre/Form

• History.
• Biographies.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 586-592.

Contents

pt. 1. Ancestors -- Ch.1. Tales my Parents Told Me -- Ch.2. Kill the Jews (1881-82) -- Ch.3. To the Promised Land -- Ch.4. The Promised land -- Ch.5. Standing Tall -- pt. 2. The Young Years of Palestine -- Ch.1. The Great War (1917) -- Ch.2. the Hill of Spring -- Ch.3. "Gateway to Hope" (Petah Takavah, 1921) -- Ch.4. On Learning -- Ch.5. Political Awarness -- Ch.6. Uncle Shraga of Be'er Tuvia -- Ch.7. Dialogues in Portici (1930) -- pt. 3. The making of a Revolution -- Ch.1. Seeds of Revolution -- Ch.2. The "Anonymous soldiers" (1932) -- Ch.3. Going Underground -- Ch.4. Assigement in Galilee -- Ch.5. Ha'apalah-Piercing the Blockade (1937) -- Ch.6. The "Sans Culotte" (Poland) -- Ch.7. Die Strassen Frei (Vienna, March 1938) -- The Voyage of the Melk -- The Crystal Night -- The Shaved Heads -- The Tramper -- The Political Salon -- pt. 4. Darkness Descends -- Ch.1. Mobilizing for the Eleventh Hour -- Ch.2. Mission to the U.S.A -- Ch.3. From Diplomacy to rebellion (The 1939 White Paper) -- Ch.4. War -- Ch.5. White Stones Along the Danube -- Ch.6. Eichmann, Wdowinski, Ben Hecht -- Ch.7. The Revolt (1944) -- Ch.8. The War Between the Jews -- The Smell of Death (1945) -- pt. 5. The War of Independence -- Ch.1. Armed Resistance-At Last! -- Ch.2. On Two Fronts -- Ch.3. On The Threshold of Freedom -- Ch.4. A Yacht for the Poor (1947) -- The Walls are Breached -- Ch.6. America Comes Across (1947) -- Ch.7. From Lake Success to the Hills of Judea -- Ch.8. A Small Peacefull Village (Deir Yassin) -- Ch.9. An L.S.T. Named Altalena.

ISBN

• 0831501855
• 9780831501853

LCCN

82143763

OCLC

• ocm08329026
• 8329026
• SCSB-38585

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library