Books on The British Mandate

Biographies and memoirs

Period novels

Non-Fiction

Memoirs and Biographies set in The British Mandate

Some of these memoirs or autobiographies contain only brief descriptions of childhoods in the mandate before going on to adult life in post-mandate Israel or Palestine. The comments pertain to usefulness for research. Comments on literary quality are saved for the in linked reviews
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Book Title
Author
Comments
No of Linked Reviews
Publisher

Children of Bethany
Aburish, Said
The Story of a Palestinian family
0
Bloomsbury

British Colonialism
Arrigonie, Harry
1st chapter only relevant
0
Gaskell

Fire in the Night
Bierman, John andd Smith, Colin
A Biograpy of Orde Wingate Chs 5-10
0
Pan

Unlikely Heroine
Cailingoldm Asher
Useful for Siege of Jerusalem 1948
0
Valentine Mitchell

Rural Thoughts in the Holy Land
Curd Thomas
Palestine seen through the eyes of a naturalist who was also a British Palestine Policeman
1 Review
Thomas Curd

Story of my Life
Dayan, Moshe
Useful on agricultural Moshavim and pioneering Zionists
0
Sphere

or did I dream a Dream
Dayan, Ruth and Dudman, Helga
Useful on life on an agricultural Moshav,
0
Weidenfeld & Nicholson

Letters from Jerusalem
Holliday, Eunice (Ed John Holliday)
1922-1934
0
Radcliffe Press

Hotel Tiberias
Hope, Sebastian

0
Harper Collins

Policeman in Palestine
Imray, Colin
Set between 1932 and 1935

Gaskell

In search of Fatima
Karmi, Garda
Useful for Muslim Arab lower middle class Palestinian culture
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Verso

When it rains out of a Blue Sky
Marcinkowsky-Schumaker, Nelly
Memoir of the daughter of a German Templar family who married a Russian evangelist annd stayed in Palestine after the partition- Mysterious gap between 1940 and 1943
0
Self published with ring binder

My Life
Meir, Golda
Mostly pre-WW2 and post WW2 - useful for Zionism, Tel Aviv and Jewish Agency
0
G. P Putnam's Sons (and reissues)

Battling for Peace
Peres, Shimon
Chs 2-7 relevant to Mandate- useful for Zionism, Ben Shemen,Jewish politics, Tel Aviv
0
Weidenfeld & Nicholson

Rabin, Yitzhak - Soldier of Peace
Jewish Report Staff
1st chapter relevant to Mandate
0
Peter Halban

The Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly
Ranfurly, Countess of
WW2. Useful for upper echelons of British Society
0
William Heinemann

Out of Place
Said, Edward
Parts set in Mandate Jerusalem
0
Granta Books

Palestine A personal History
Sabbagh, Karl
A family history with broader historical views
0
Atlantic

Summing Up
Shamir, Yitzhak
First 4 chapters relevant to Mandate Useful on Stern Gang POV

Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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