Joseph Heller

The United States, the Soviet Union and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1948-67

Superpower rivalry

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a comprehensive history of the modern Middle East and Arab-Israeli conflict through the Cold War, focusing on relations between the region and the two superpowers. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781526127358
• ISBN-10: 1526127350
• Artikelnr.: 52912351

Autorenporträt

Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. Heller was born on May 1, 1923 in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, the son of poor Jewish parents, Lena and Isaac Donald Heller, from Russia. Even as a child, he loved to write; as a teenager, he wrote a story about the Russian invasion of Finland and sent it to the New York Daily News, which rejected it. After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941, Heller spent the next year working as a blacksmith's apprentice, a messenger boy, and a filing clerk. In 1942, at age 19, he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps. Two years later he was sent to the Italian Front, where he flew 60 combat missions as a B-25 bombardier. His unit was the 488th Bombardment Squadron, 340th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force. Heller later remembered the war as "fun in the beginning ... You got the feeling that there was something glorious about it." Joseph Heller died on December 12, 1999 of a heart attack at his home in East Hampton, on Long Island, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 The Soviet Union and Israel: from the Gromyko declaration to the death of Stalin (1947
53) 2 The United States and the Cold War: from Truman to Eisenhower (1948
53) 3 Israel and the Soviet Union prior to the Suez Crisis (1953
56) 4 Sharett versus Eisenhower and Dulles (1953
56) 5 Israel and the United States on the road to war (November 1955
November 1956) 6 The Eisenhower Doctrine and Israel (November 1956
January 1958) 7 Soviet
Israeli relations after the Suez War (1956
61) 8 How the Middle East crises affected US policy toward Israel (1958
60) 9 Kennedy, Israel and the Cold War before the Cuban Missile Crisis (1961
62) 10 Was Kennedy the 'father' of the US
Israeli alliance? (1962
63) 11 Khrushchev, Israel and Soviet Jewry (1961
64) 12 Was Johnson the 'father' of the US
Israeli alliance?: the Memorandum of Understanding (1964
65) 13 Johnson, Israel and the Cold War: testing the Memorandum of Understanding (1965
67) 14 The Soviet Union, Israel and Soviet Jewry (1964
67) 15 The United States and the crisis of the Six Day War (May 14
June 5, 1967) 16 The Soviet Union and the Six Day War (May 14
June 5, 1967) Conclusions Index