{"title":"Benny Morris","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the compelling works of Benny Morris, a prominent historian whose expertise spans the intricate history of the Middle East and beyond. Renowned for his meticulous research and balanced analysis, Morris's books provide valuable insights into some of the most critical events and figures in modern history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExplore \u003cem\u003e1948\u003c\/em\u003e, where Morris delves into the pivotal year marking the birth of the Israeli state, presenting a detailed account of the complexities that arose during this transformative period. In \u003cem\u003eOne State, Two States\u003c\/em\u003e, he examines the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, discussing potential resolutions and the challenges associated with achieving peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMorris's repertoire extends into the realm of espionage with \u003cem\u003eSidney Reilly\u003c\/em\u003e, a gripping biography of one of the world's most enigmatic spies whose life was filled with intrigue and adventure. Further expanding his historical focus, \u003cem\u003eThe Thirty-Year Genocide\u003c\/em\u003e offers an exhaustive exploration of the harrowing atrocities committed against the Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire from 1894 to 1924.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach of Benny Morris's books provides a thorough and educational journey through pivotal moments in history, making them essential reads for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of our past.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"1948-by-benny-morris-9780300151121","title":"1948","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBenny Morris demolishes misconceptions and provides a comprehensive history of the Israeli-Arab war of 1948\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the military engagements, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western documentation. The Arab side—where the archives are still closed—is illuminated with the help of intelligence and diplomatic materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMorris stresses the \u003cem\u003ejihadi\u003c\/em\u003e character of the two-stage Arab assault on the Jewish community in Palestine. Throughout, he examines the dialectic between the war's military and political developments and highlights the military impetus in the creation of the refugee problem, which was a by-product of the disintegration of Palestinian Arab society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book thoroughly investigates the role of the Great Powers—Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union—in shaping the conflict and its tentative termination in 1949. Morris looks both at high politics and general staff decision-making processes and at the nitty-gritty of combat in the successive battles that resulted in the emergence of the State of Israel and the humiliation of the Arab world, a humiliation that underlies the continued Arab antagonism toward Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46795983454444,"sku":"9780300151121","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23508953482294.jpg?v=1757068365"},{"product_id":"sidney-reilly-by-benny-morris-9780300248265","title":"Sidney Reilly","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSidney Reilly\u003c\/em\u003e (c. 1873–1925) is one of the most colourful and best-known spies of the twentieth century. Emerging from humble beginnings in southern Russia, Reilly was an inventive multilingual businessman and conman who enjoyed espionage as a sideline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the early twentieth century, he was working as an agent for Scotland Yard, spying on émigré communities in Paris and London, with occasional sorties to Germany, Russia, and the Far East. He spent World War I in the United States, brokering major arms deals for Tsarist Russia, and then decided to become a professional spy, joining the ranks of MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence service.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe came close to overthrowing the Bolshevik regime in Moscow before eventually being lured back to Russia and executed. Said to have been the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s iconic James Bond character, Reilly was simultaneously married to three or four women and had mistresses galore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSifting through the reality and myth of Reilly’s life, historian Benny Morris offers a fascinating portrait of one of the most intriguing figures from the golden age of spies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855833354476,"sku":"9780300248265","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24480393482294.jpg?v=1759280446"},{"product_id":"one-state-two-states-by-benny-morris-9780300164442","title":"One State, Two States","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA renowned historian eludes the pitfalls of partisanship and tackles one of the world's most perplexing and divisive issues.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"What is so striking about Morris's work as a historian is that it does not flatter anyone's prejudices, least of all his own,\" David Remnick remarked in a \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e article that coincided with the publication of Benny Morris's \u003cem\u003e1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War\u003c\/em\u003e. With the same commitment to objectivity that has consistently characterised his approach, Morris now turns his attention to the present-day legacy of the events of 1948 and the concrete options for the future of Palestine and Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book scrutinises the history of the goals of the Palestinian national movement and the Zionist movement, then considers the various one- and two-state proposals made by different streams within the two movements. It also looks at the willingness or unwillingness of each movement to find an accommodation based on compromise. Morris assesses the viability and practicality of proposed solutions in the light of complicated and acrimonious realities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout his groundbreaking career, Morris has reshaped understanding of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Here, once again, he arrives at a new way of thinking about the discord, injecting a ray of hope in a region where it is most sorely needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000693047532,"sku":"9780300164442","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23642163482294.jpg?v=1763297897"},{"product_id":"the-thirty-year-genocide-by-dror-zeevi-9780674251434","title":"The Thirty-Year Genocide","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A landmark contribution to the study of these epochal events.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n-\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brilliantly researched and written casts a careful eye upon the ghastly events that took place in the final decades of the Ottoman empire, when its rulers decided to annihilate their Christian subjects. Hitler and the Nazis gleaned lessons from this genocide that they then applied to their own efforts to extirpate Jews.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n- Jacob Heilbrunn, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, once nearly a quarter of the population, had been reduced to 2 percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. \u003ci\u003eThe Thirty-Year Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e is the first account to show that all three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population. Despite the dramatic swing from the Islamising autocracy of the sultan to the secularising republicanism of the post–World War I period, the nation's annihilationist policies were remarkably constant, with continual recourse to premeditated mass killing, homicidal deportation, forced conversion, and mass rape. And one thing more was a constant: the rallying cry of jihad. 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