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`This gripping tale of a dark episode from the fag-end of Empire has a piquant pay-off.' --Independent
'Cesarani dramatises this sordid incident with verve.'
-- The Observer
`a piece of contemporary history with bite and verve'
-- LRB
'Cesarani dramatises this sordid incident with verve.'
-- The Observer
`a piece of contemporary history with bite and verve'
-- LRB
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The gripping true story of the murder, in Palestine in 1947, of a Jewish activist by a British counter-terrorist officer and the subsequent cover-up
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I read this book which I had ordered as a result of watching the first two episodes of 'the Promise'.unfortunately I was unable to see the last two episides as I was out of the country. The series on Sunday evenings is about a British Army sergeant who was in Palestine before the creation of Isreal. I had already read Roy Farran's 'Winged Dagger' 1949 edition - the uncensored version which has his memories of Palestine in it. Some research in Google brought me to 'Major Farran's Hat' by David Cesarani which was written after Farran's death. (It had to be as the writer unashanedly denounces him as a coward etc.) In fact although the book is written by a writer who appears to be a sympathiser of the Stern gang and other Jewish terrorists, carelessly dismissing the 91 lives lost in the bombing of the King Davids Hotel, the killing of British servicemen in Palestine and the bombing of the colonial club in London, it did not, in my view, succeed in showing Major Farran to be a 'bad' person- perhaps because I had already read Winged Dagger. What was interesting was inter alia that Avraham Stern had been in favour of the Jews supporting Adolf Hitler and Mussolini on the basis that anyone who was an enemy of the British was a friend of the Zionists, plans after the war to send letter bombs to Churchill Bevan and others. Montgomery's views that the Jews in Palestine needed to be crushed...
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