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The story of the Jewish legion / by Vladimir Jabotinsky; translated by Samuel Katz, with a foreword by Col. John Henry Patterson, D.S.O.
LIBRA D568.7 .Z485
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 1880-1940.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. Army. Jewish Legion.
- Great Britain.
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Palestine.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Jews.
- Jews.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (inscription) (Potok Collection copy)
- Jabotinsky, Jeanne (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bernard Ackerman, Incorporated, [1945]
- Contents:
- Birth of the Legion idea
- First experiment
- Zion Mule Corps
- Failure after failure
- Alone against everybody
- How politics are made
- Between the barracks and the war office
- Victory
- Meanders of state wisdom
- Training camp and G.H.Q.
- The joy of Hebrew Palestine
- Our first front
- Sodom and Gomorrah at close quarters
- Beyond the Jordan
- Why there was quiet in Palestine
- Our officers
- Our soldiers
- The caste of the General Staff
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- "Published under the auspices of the Jabotinsky Foundation, Inc. ..."
- Includes index.
- "Recommended by the Book-of-the-Month Club"--Dust jacket.
- Local Notes:
- Acc.# 11204
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy inscribed "To Mr. Herman Potok. Jeanne Vladimir-Jabotinsky. Camp Betar. Summer 1946".
- Potok Collection copy has "Errata" pasted on page [6].
- OCLC:
- 177504
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