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green hardbound 8vo. ~ 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. near fine cond. binding square & tight. covers bowed out a tiny bit. front cover has two spots & tiny scratch, spine & rear cover clean. couple of tiny scratches on top edge, other text block edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in vg cond. bit of soiling, 1cm tear front bottom, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~. fifth edition including a new chapter by the author: From The Perspective Of A Generation. b&w frontis. portrait. x + (vii~xiii) + 386p. Preface By Ivan Greenberg. index. memoirs. autobiography. biography. world history. politics. conspiracy theory. secret societies. british mandate palestine. history of israel. american history. zionism.~ THE REVOLT is the inside story, told for the first time, of the revolt of an underground army, the mysterious Irgun Zvai Leumi, against the British forces in Palestine. It is the thoughtful rationale of revolution by the lrgun's Commander~in~chief, Menachem Begin, philosopher and man of action, passionately devoted to the liberal~democratic way of life. It is the highly controversial story of the internal political struggles that went on behind the scent's during the creation of the modern state of Israel. one of the great events of our era. It is also a thrilling story of derring~do which can be read for sheer narrative excitement alone. And last but not least, this historic document serves to set the record right and put the matter in proper perspective. The book opens in a Soviet camp in Siberia, where Begin was imprisoned in 1940. It closes with the birth of the new state of Israel. In between is the record of the dramatic and stirring events by which a relative handful of devoted, daring and determined men wrested their freedom from all the powerful British might in the Middle East. If the Irgun did nothing else, it will go down in history as the progenitor of the modern fighting Jew. Readers of this book will learn for the first time what has been rigidly suppressed and distorted before, the Irgun's own story of what really happened, and why it happened, including the blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the hanging of the British sergeants, the audacious daylight raids and the epic capture of the Fortress of Acre. These shocking events, seemingly so terroristic in character, were in reality the daring and bold expression of a fiercely philosophical approach to the fantastic goal of rooting the British out of Palestine.