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pp. xviii, (1), 382. b/w illustrations, “The resurrection of a sovereign Jewish state in 1948 was, in part, achieved by military means. It was also due to decades of lobbying, drumming up financial support, and masterful public-relations efforts by Zionist agents across Europe and the U.S. After World War II ended, as hundreds of thousands of Jewish survivors languished in “displaced persons” camps, there was a concerted effort to evade a British blockade and bring many of these Jews to Palestine. The efforts would end their suffering, pad the Jewish population of the emerging state, and awaken public opinion to the justice and necessity of creating a Jewish homeland. The most spectacular and successful of these efforts was the attempt to bring in more than 4,000 refugees aboard the renamed ship Exodus. The ship left Marseilles in 1947 but was stopped and boarded, with some violence, by the Royal Navy. Most of the pitiful refugees were sent to new camps, incredibly, in Germany. But the widespread coverage of this episode served to undermine British authority and publicize the case for a Jewish state.”