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Like dreamers : the story of the Israeli paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem and divided a nation
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In Like Dreamers, acclaimed journalist Yossi Klein Halevi interweaves the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem, tracing the history of Israel and the divergent ideologies ...
In Like Dreamers, acclaimed journalist Yossi Klein Halevi interweaves the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem, tracing the history of Israel and the divergent ideologies shaping it from the Six-Day War to the present.
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- Creator
- Yossi Klein Halevi
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First edition
- New York, NY : HarperCollins, [2013]
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- xxvi, 575 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780060545765, 0060545763, 0060545771, 9780060545772
- OCLC
- ocn827260124
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-561) and index.
- The Lions' Gate (May-June, 1967). May Day ; The Center ; Born to serve ; A time of waiting ; No-man's-land ; "the Temple Mount is in our hands" ; "Jerusalem of Iron" -- The seventh day (1967-1973). The summer of Mercaz ; The Kibbutzniks come home ; The children return to their borders ; Attrition ; The invention of Yisrael Harel ; Utopias lost and found ; Across the border -- Atonement (1973-1982). Brave-hearted men ; "Our forces passed a quiet night in Suez" ; The home front ; "End of the orange season" ; A new Israel ; Building different Israels ; Hurban -- Middle age (1982-1992). The forty-first kilometer ; Civil wars ; Idolatrous fire ; New beginnings ; Under siege -- The end of the Six Day War (1992-2002). A new Israel, again ; Almost normal ; Careening toward the center