Practical topic books for key periods in 20th Century History.

Part 1 The roots of the conflict: a holy land; Zionism and Arab nationalism; the start of the conflict; challenges to British rule; the end of British rule; liberation and catastrophe . Part 2 The conflict: uneasy peace, 1949-55; the Suez-Sinai war of 1956; the reshaping of the Middle East, 1956-67; the six-day war of 1967; war by other means, 1957-78; from Yom Kippur to Camp David, 1973-79; war in Lebanon; the conflict since 1985.