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Aaron Aaronsohn
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Absalom's Death
Absalom’s Death
Atriplex Leucoclada
Author_Anita Engle
Balfour Declaration
British Camps
British intelligence collaboration
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Dr Chaim Weizmann
Dr Weizmann
El Arish
Eliezer Ben Yehuda
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Face To Face
Fine Day
First World War intelligence
Highest Governmental Levels
Independent Woman
Jewish espionage in Ottoman Palestine
Jewish resistance history
Kress Von Kressenstein
lishansky
Middle Eastern military history
Modern Palestine
Nili Work
Ottoman Empire espionage
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Petach Tikvah
Sinai Desert
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Turkish Fourth Army
War Time
Wild Wheat
Wo
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Yosef Lishansky
Young Men
Zichron Yaacov
Zionist underground networks
Product details
- ISBN 9780714642932
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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An extraordinary tale, much-neglected by historians, of courage, bravery and eventual tragedy which took place during the First World War in the Middle East. It is the story of a small group of people, of whom Sarah and Aaron Aaronsohn were the core, who were devoted to the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine, and who were convinced that it was in imminent danger of extinction from the Turks.They resolved to help the British in Egypt by collecting military intelligence. Unfortunately, as Peter Calvocoressi points out, their understanding of the British position was quite wrong...[their] miscalculations created the tragedy which this book recounts...'
