The Revolt by editor Begin, Menachem; Iva...

The political scientist John Bowyer Bell, who studied both the Irgun and the Irish Republican Army (IRA), recalled that many of the IRA men whom he interviewed in the 1960s had read The Revolt and admired it as a manual of guerrilla warfare. Allen in the UK and Henry Schuman in the US, the book has had many editions/reprints. The book is part autobiographical, tracing Begin's own political development. The book traces the development of the Irgun from its early days in the 1930s, through its years of violent struggle in the Palestine Mandate against both British rule (the 'revolt') and Arab opposition, to the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In Israel, the organization is commonly called Etzel, based on its Hebrew acronym. The Revolt: Inside Story of the Irgun and The Revolt: the Dramatic Inside Story of the Irgun, is a book about the militant Zionist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi, by one of its principal leaders, Menachem Begin.

He supplied about one half of the explanatory notes included in the American edition. Ivan Greenberg was the former editor of the London Jewish Chronicle and, working with Mr. Shmuel Katz, translator, was a member of the Command of the Irgun Zvai Leumi and also was a member of the Knesset. Inside the front cover is a sticker in Hebrew and English from Steimatsky's. Title page also as two stamps-one in Hebrew and on for the Savoy Hotel Tel-Aviv. Azriel Peterson Friend of the Warriors Warm Wishes M. The inscription translates into English as To Mr.

Inscribed in Hebrew by the author on the title page. Editor's Preface, Introductions, XXXI chapters, Index.

The Revolt by editor Begin, Menachem; Iva...