The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land
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One of Britain's most renowned military historians revisits a controversial murder: that of Zionist leader Avraham Stern, head of Israel's notorious Stern Gang, in Tel Aviv during WWII.
Militant Zionist Avraham Stern believed he was destined to be the Jewish liberator of British Palestine. As the ringleader of the infamous Stern Gang, also known as Lehi, he masterminded a series of high-profile terrorist attacks in pursuit of his dream. On the run from British authorities who'd put a bounty on his head, Stern was hiding in an attic in Tel Aviv when he was killed by Assistant Superintendent Geoffrey Morton, a British colonial policeman assigned to capture him.
Morton claimed Stern was trying to escape. But witnesses insisted he was executed in cold blood. His controversial death inspired a cult of martyrdom that gave new life to Lehi, helping to destroy hopes of a detente between the British, the Arabs, and the Jews.
The Reckoning is the story of Patrick Bishop's quest to discover the truth. Based on extensive research—including access to Morton's private archive and eyewitness interviews—it recounts this seismic event in full, without bias, placing it within the context of its turbulent time. Bishop's gripping, groundbreaking narrative brings to life two men similar in ambition and dedication, chronicles the events that led to their fatal meeting, and explores how the impact of Stern's death reverberated through the final years of British rule and the birth of Israel.
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Patrick Bishop. (2014). The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land. HarperCollins.
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Patrick Bishop has emerged in the last decade as one of Britain's best-regarded military historians with his books Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys, which cast a new light on the men who flew in the Battle of Britain and the Strategic Air Campaign, as well as 3 Para, which follows British troops in the 2006 battle in Helmand. He is also the author of two novels.
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One of Britain's most renowned military historians revisits a controversial murder: that of Zionist leader Avraham Stern, head of Israel's notorious Stern Gang, in Tel Aviv during WWII.
Militant Zionist Avraham Stern believed he was destined to be the Jewish liberator of British Palestine. As the ringleader of the infamous Stern Gang, also known as Lehi, he masterminded a series of high-profile terrorist attacks in pursuit of his dream. On the run from British authorities who'd put a bounty on his head, Stern was hiding in an attic in Tel Aviv when he was killed by Assistant Superintendent Geoffrey Morton, a British colonial policeman assigned to capture him.
Morton claimed Stern was trying to escape. But witnesses insisted he was executed in cold blood. His controversial death inspired a cult of martyrdom that gave new life to Lehi, helping to destroy hopes of a detente between the British, the Arabs, and the Jews.
The Reckoning is the story of Patrick Bishop's quest to discover the truth. Based on extensive research—including access to Morton's private archive and eyewitness interviews—it recounts this seismic event in full, without bias, placing it within the context of its turbulent time. Bishop's gripping, groundbreaking narrative brings to life two men similar in ambition and dedication, chronicles the events that led to their fatal meeting, and explores how the impact of Stern's death reverberated through the final years of British rule and the birth of Israel.
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"Bishop's book has all the suspense and detail of a good novel." — Boston Globe
"What [Bishop] does, thanks to tireless research and powerful storytelling, is show how a ruthless murderer of civilians became an unnecessary martyr." — New York magazine
"Mr Bishop's depiction of Stern's downfall is masterful." — The Economist
"Bishop's fast-paced, well-written work sheds considerable light not only on how and why Stern was killed but on the final, violent years of the British mandate in Palestine." — Publishers Weekly
"Clearly representing the point of view of the colonial British authorities, the author largely avoids demonizing or making heroes of either of his main protagonists, a failing of most English and Israeli accounts of the period." — Library Journal
Praise for Fighter Boys: "I know of no more thoughtful nor yet more moving study of their achievement." — Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph (London), on FIGHTER BOYS
"As a vivid chronicle of who the Battle of Britain pilots were, what motivated them, and why they were ultimately successful, Fighter Boys is unsurpassed." — Daily Telegraph (London) on FIGHTER BOYS
"No one reading this book can possibly doubt the heroism of those involved...there can't be a finer history." — James Holland, The New Statesman (London) on FIGHTER BOYS
"Bishop successfully weaves a story that is both entertaining and revealing.... He does an admirable job of showing how British police officers faced the difficult task of maintaining order between Jews and the Arabs whose resistance set the stage for later bloody confrontations." — Washington Post
"Patrick Bishop's book has important lessons for the modern day." — Economist (UK), "Books of the Year" pick
"Patrick Bishop's book on the death of Avraham Stern is an important chapter in the tragic and bloody history of the Holy Land" — Iron Mountain Daily News (Michigan)
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Avraham “Yair” Stern, the head of the eponymous gang of anti-British terrorists in Mandate Palestine, was shot and killed in a Tel Aviv apartment by police inspector Geoffrey Morton on the morning of February 12, 1942. But did Morton shoot a man who was attempting to flee or did he kill Stern in cold blood? Military historian Bishop (Wings: The RAF at War, 1912–2012) unravels the mystery, providing important biographical information on both figures, particularly Stern, the man who was so vitriolically opposed to the British that he was prepared to cooperate with Italian fascists and Nazis. Morton is portrayed as a hard-working, dedicated civil servant, yet one who, during several libel suits in the 1950s, ’60s, and early ’70s, repressed—or possibly willfully distorted—what happened that February day. Bishop also devotes the last quarter of the book to what happened to the Stern Gang after Stern’s death. Among its actions that helped drive the British out of Palestine was the 1944 assassination of Lord Moyne, the British minister of state for the Middle East. Bishop’s fast-paced, well-written work sheds considerable light not only on how and why Stern was killed but on the final, violent years of the British mandate in Palestine.
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Military historian Bishop chronicles the murder of militant Zionist Avraham Stern, leader of the notorious Stern Gang--more appropriately known as Lehi, a Hebrew acronym for Fighters for the Freedom of Israel--in 1942 Palestine. He was killed (some witnesses say in cold blood) by the British colonial policeman charged with capturing him owing to his group's terrorist activities. Bishop looks for the truth while showing that the murder ended the possibility of British, Arab, and Jewish reconciliation in the area. Rumored: a film on this subject, directed by Michael Winterbottom, with Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, and Jim Sturgess attached.
Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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November 1, 2014
British military historian (Bomber Boys; Fighter Boys) and novelist (A Good War) Bishop turns his sights to the struggle between the British police and underground groups in Mandatory Palestine. Bishop traces the life stories--and final fatal encounter--of Assistant Superintendent Geoffrey Morton, a British-born Palestinian police officer, and Jewish firebrand Avraham Stern, leader of the militant splinter "Stern Gang" of the Irgun and right-wing rival of the Haganah underground, which became Israel's Defense Force. Though he examines all available documents and records in an effort to determine whether Stern's death at the hands of Morton was murder or truly a case of "shot while attempting to escape," Bishop leaves that question unresolved. Stern associates Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir were perceived as criminals under the British mandate yet became founding fathers and future prime ministers of Israel. Stern only became a hero to many there postmortem. Clearly representing the point of view of the colonial British authorities, the author largely avoids demonizing or making heroes of either of his main protagonists, a failing of most English and Israeli accounts of the period. VERDICT Of interest to those seeking context of the events immediately preceding the foundation of Israel. [See Prepub Alert, 6/8/14.]--Joel Neuberg, Santa Rosa Junior Coll. Lib., CA
Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Militant Zionist Avraham Stern believed he was destined to be the Jewish liberator of British Palestine. As the ringleader of the infamous Stern Gang, also known as Lehi, he masterminded a series of high-profile terrorist attacks in pursuit of his dream. On the run from British authorities who'd put a bounty on his head, Stern was hiding in an attic in Tel Aviv when he was killed by Assistant Superintendent Geoffrey Morton, a British colonial policeman assigned to capture him.
Morton claimed Stern was trying to escape. But witnesses insisted he was executed in cold blood. His controversial death inspired a cult of martyrdom that gave new life to Lehi, helping to destroy hopes of a detente between the British, the Arabs, and the Jews.
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