Jonathan Mirsky

A poisonous legacy

A Senseless, Squalid War: Voices from Palestine 1945-1948, by Norman Rose Major Farran’s Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain’s War Against Jewish Terrorism, 1945-1948, by David Cesarani

  • A Senseless, Squalid War: Voices from Palestine 1945-1948

    Norman Roseby

    Bodley Head, pp. 352

  • Major Farran’s Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain’s War Against Jewish Terrorism, 1945-1948

    David Cesarani

    Heinemann, pp. 290

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