CONTENTS

ALSO BY TOM SEGEV

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

DEDICATION

INTRODUCTION: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY

PART I: THE ROAD TO POWER

1.     The Vow

2.     Scroll of Fire

3.     Birds

4.     Foreign Labor

5.     Sejera

6.     Deportation

7.     New World

8.     Authority

9.     Scandals

10.   Unification

11.   Conversations

12.   Winds of War

13.   Zionist Alertness

14.   Holocaust and Schism

PART II: THE LIMITS OF POWER

15.   Maps

16.   Partition

17.   War

18.   New Israelis

19.   Anxieties

20.   The Nasty Business

21.   The Second Round

22.   Yes to the Old Man

23.   The Lavon Affair

24.   Twilight

25.   Another Kind of Jew

PLATE SECTION

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A NOTE ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

AN INVITATION FROM THE PUBLISHER