TY - BOOK AU - Ben-Ze'ev,Efrat ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Remembering Palestine in 1948: beyond national narratives T2 - Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare AV - DS126.97 .B464 2011 U1 - 956.04/2 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 KW - Personal narratives, Israeli KW - Personal narratives, Palestinian KW - Personal narratives, British KW - Influence KW - Collective memory KW - Israel KW - Palestine KW - Arab-Israeli conflict KW - Social aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries N2 - "The war of 1948 in Palestine is a conflict whose history has been written primarily from the national point of view. This book asks what happens to these narratives when they arise out of the personal stories of those who were involved, stories that are still unfolding. Efrat Ben-Ze'ev examines the memories of those who participated and were affected by the events of 1948, and how these events have been mythologized over time. This is a three-way conversation between Palestinian villagers, Jewish-Israeli veterans, and British policemen who were stationed in Palestine on the eve of the war. Each has his or her story to tell. These small-scale truths shed new light on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as it was then and as it has become"-- UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bcsl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=807251 ER -