Balfour Bookshelf
Books That Place the Balfour Declaration in Context
Overview
The Balfour Declaration by Leonard Stein (1961)
A History of Modern Israel by Colin Shindler (2013)
Balfour The Man
Balfour: The Last Grandee by R.J.Q. Adams (2007)
Trial and Error by Chaim Weizmann (1949)
Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Statesman (2 volumes) by Jehuda Reinharz (1985/1993)
The Mandate
Churchill’s Promised Land by Michael Makovsky (2007)
Palestine: A Twice-Promised Land 1915-1920 by Isaiah Friedmann(2000)
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate by Tom Segev (2000)
The Balfour Declaration by Jonathan Schneer (2010)
Zionism
The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State by Shlomo Avineri (1981)
A History of Zionism by Walter Laqueur (1972)
The Zionist Idea by Arthur Hertzberg (1959)
The Seeds of the Conflict
The Arab-Israeli Wars by Chaim Herzog (1982)
The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism by Conor Cruise O’Brien (1986)
Palestine Betrayed by Efraim Karsh (2010)
Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism (1917-1948) by Hillel Cohen (2008)
Seven Fallen Pillars: The Middle East, 1915-1950 by Jon Kimche (1950)
Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine by Samuel Katz (1973)
Israel: A History by Anita Shapira (2014)
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 by Benny Morris (1987)