Ahron Bregman was a captain in the Israeli army during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and worked as a parliamentary assistant at the Knesset. Ahron is author of The Fifty Years War (1998), the companion book to a six-part BBC television documentary; Elusive Peace (2005), the companion to a three-part BBC television documentary; A History of Israel (2003); and Cursed Victory (2014). He teaches at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.
List of maps. List of figures. Preface to the fourth edition. Preface to the third edition. Preface to the second edition. Preface. 1. The 1947
9 war 2. A nation
in
arms 1949
67 3. The six bad years 1967
73 4. War and peace 1973
9 5. War in Lebanon 1982 6. Intifada 1987
93 7. The Al
Aqsa intifada 2000
5 8. The Second Lebanon War 2006 9. Gaza Wars 2007
14 10. Conclusions. Notes. Select bibliography. Index.
