mparisinou's review
5.0
Although I’ve known about the story of the King David Hotel bombing for years and have read about it before (albeit in less detail), I was sitting at the edge of my seat as I was reading this: a sign of a book well written. The author makes this heart-wrenching incident come alive by deftly weaving human drama with historical facts and in the process provides a dispassionate condemnation of terrorism. It’s a well researched, pretty even-handed book which I found particularly interesting for its insights into the dynamics among the different Jewish terrorist groups that operated during the British Mandate period in Palestine and their relationship to the British authorities, as well as the psychology and ideology of their members. The only disappointment was the lack of a full list of the victims, perhaps in an appendix.
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