Jerusalem Embattled: A Diary of the City Under Siege, March 25th, 1948, to July 18th, 1948 |
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Page 66
... Suddenly the village seemed to erupt . Our mortars started it , and at once came a bedlam of answering fire . We saw the summer - lightning flashes of their guns and the shots passing overhead . They fired wildly , to all points of the ...
... Suddenly the village seemed to erupt . Our mortars started it , and at once came a bedlam of answering fire . We saw the summer - lightning flashes of their guns and the shots passing overhead . They fired wildly , to all points of the ...
Page 140
... suddenly , that their conception of the future has been altered . Until recently their thoughts of May and June were illumined by a brilliant if undefined picture of freedom from foreign domination , of independence . But now they find ...
... suddenly , that their conception of the future has been altered . Until recently their thoughts of May and June were illumined by a brilliant if undefined picture of freedom from foreign domination , of independence . But now they find ...
Page 152
... suddenly became deserted . It has happened . The British are gone . Into the Zone a host of children started madly to drag sand- bags ; it seemed the kids were taking it over . Suddenly , already within , Haganah men appeared . They ...
... suddenly became deserted . It has happened . The British are gone . Into the Zone a host of children started madly to drag sand- bags ; it seemed the kids were taking it over . Suddenly , already within , Haganah men appeared . They ...
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Jerusalem Embattled: A Diary of the City Under Siege, March 25th, 1948 to ... Harry Levin No preview available - 1997 |
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Abdullah afternoon Arab Legion Arab villages armoured cars arms Army asked Ataroth attack Bab-el-Wad battle Ben Yehuda Street British building Castel cease-fire convoy crash dark dead Deir Egyptian Etzel Etzion evacuated eyes feeling fighting fire food convoy Galilee girl Government guns Haganah Haifa hamseen hands heard heavy Hebrew hills Holy Iraqis Israel Jaffa Jaffa Road Jerusalem Jewish Agency Jews Judy Katamon killed last night Latrun Legion looked lorries machine-guns Mateh Michael minutes Mishmar months morning mortars moved officer Old City Palestine Palmach plane police Quarter quiet Ramat Rahel ration Rehavia road Ruth says seems settlements Sheikh Jarrah shells shelter shooting shot siege snipers soldiers started stopped street suddenly Syrians talk tanks Tel-Aviv tell thought to-day to-night told Transjordan Truce Commission wadi walked walls week wireless women wounded Yemin Moshe yesterday