| List of Maps | x |
| Preface | xi |
| 1 | The Road to Statehood, 1897-1947 | 1 |
| Theodor Herzl | 1 |
| Eretz Yisrael | 7 |
| Palestine in the First World War | 13 |
| The post-war period | 18 |
| The British Mandate | 21 |
| The Arab Rebellion, 1936-39 | 27 |
| Palestine in the Second World War | 33 |
| Turning on the British | 37 |
| Partition and civil war | 39 |
| 2 | The Birth of Israel, 1948-1949 | 44 |
| Friday, 14 May 1948 | 44 |
| War | 47 |
| End of war and the emergence of a democracy | 59 |
| 3 | Years of Consolidation, 1950-1966 | 70 |
| Mass immigration | 70 |
| Communal problems | 71 |
| The economy in crisis | 75 |
| Tensions along the borders | 79 |
| New leadership | 81 |
| The politicization of the Holocaust | 86 |
| The 1956 Kadesh campaign and after | 88 |
| Domestic issues | 93 |
| The Lavon Affair | 95 |
| Germany again | 98 |
| Enter Levy Eshkol | 100 |
| 4 | The Six-Day War and Afterwards, 1967-1973 | 104 |
| Descent to war | 104 |
| The waiting period | 110 |
| Six days of war | 116 |
| The new society | 123 |
| Snail's pace diplomacy | 125 |
| Enter Golda Meir | 129 |
| War of attrition | 130 |
| Golda and Anwar el-Sadat | 134 |
| Terrorism, immigration and riots | 136 |
| 5 | Yom Kippur War and the Death of Labour, 1973-1977 | 139 |
| Sadat prepares war | 139 |
| Israel stumbles into the trap | 142 |
| Invasion | 151 |
| Fighting back | 154 |
| Post-war: society and diplomacy | 156 |
| The Agranat report | 157 |
| Enter Yitzhak Rabin | 159 |
| Enter Shimon Peres | 165 |
| 6 | Begin's Years, 1977-1983 | 168 |
| Building a coalition | 168 |
| First steps to peace | 170 |
| The home front | 176 |
| Camp David and after | 183 |
| 'Tamuz 1' | 191 |
| A second Likud government | 194 |
| War in Lebanon | 196 |
| 7 | The Road to Peace, 1983-1991 | 205 |
| Enter Yitzhak Shamir | 205 |
| Working Together | 208 |
| Intifada | 215 |
| Immigration and death of the coalition | 221 |
| War and immigration | 227 |
| The road to peace | 230 |
| The Madrid Peace Conference | 232 |
| 8 | Peace and War, 1992 to Present | 236 |
| Enter Yitzhak Rabin | 236 |
| Enter Benjamin Netanyahu | 254 |
| Enter Ehud Barak | 261 |
| Enter Ariel Sharon | 277 |
| Appendix 1 | The Dayan el-Tohami Protocol, 1977 | 287 |
| Appendix 2 | Draft Declaration of Principles, Israel-Syria, 1992 | 291 |
| Notes | 295 |
| Further Reading | 302 |
| Index | 308 |
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