O Jerusalem
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- This article is about the book by Dominique Lapierre. For other uses, see O Jerusalem (disambiguation).
O Jerusalem! (1972, ISBN 0-671-66241-4) is a book authored by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins, captures the events and struggles for creation of the state of Israel.
[edit] Introduction
The book is the result of five years of research by the authors, which also included several thousand interviews, and examination of a series of publicly available documents and relevant materials. These became the basic materials for presenting the story of the birth of the modern state of Israel.
The book O Jerusalem! endeavors to present events from all the sides who were parties to the conflict and the events which are the subject matter of the book: the Jews, from the simple soldiers and rabbinical students to the commanders like Ben Gurion and Golda Meir; the Arabs; and the British.
[edit] Presentation
The book has forty-six chapters, grouped into four parts:
- Part One, A Time to Mourn and a Time to Dance, has six chapters.
- Part Two (A House Against Itself) has eleven chapters.
- Part Three (A City Besieged) has thirteen chapters.
- Part Four (A City Divided) has sixteen chapters.
The book begins with a Prologue, and ends with Epilogue, Index, and certain relevant information categorized under Biographical Note Acknowledgements, Bibliography, Chapter Notes, and Photograph credits.
