Aaronsohn's Maps: The Untold Story of the Man who Might Have Created Peace in the Middle EastHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007 - 344 ページ Scientist, diplomat, and spy, Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jews. He was born to Jewish settlers in Palestine. During World War I, he ran a network of spies with his sister, Sarah, that enabled the British to capture Jerusalem and made Aaron T.E. Lawrence's rival in an astonishing triangle: there is evidence that beautiful, rebellious Sarah, who died tragically in 1917, was the only woman Lawrence ever loved. A rugged adventurer, Aaronsohn became convinced during his explorations of the Middle East that water would govern the region's fate. He compiled both the area's first detailed water maps and a plan for Palestine's national borders that predicted and--in its insistence on partnership between Arabs and Jews--might have prevented the decades of conflict to come. If Aaron had lived to carry out his vision, the course of modern history might have been very different. But the will to power that drew him from science to politics led him to a premature and mysterious death in 1919. His maps were lost, his library - and for many years, even his memory - destroyed. A history that speaks directly to the present, "Aaronsohn's Maps" reveals for the first time Aaronsohn's key role in establishing Israel and the enduring importance of Aaronsohn's maps in Middle Eastern politics today. |
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THE JEW IN TH BATHCHAIR | 11 |
THE SPIES OF MOSES | 28 |
FLYING THE ZIONIST KITE IN AMERICA | 55 |
MINUET | 76 |
THE LOCUST HUNTER | 95 |
FELIX KRULL CONFIDENCE MAN | 118 |
HE WHO WRITES THE DISPATCHES | 147 |
OUR PEOPLE | 169 |
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