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5 James Green, Death in the Haymarket (New York 2006)
6 Arthur Holitscher, Ravachol und die pariser Anarchisten (Berlin 1925) is sympathetic to Ravachol and his successors
7 See the reports in The Times dated 16 and 21 February 1894 and David Mulry, ‘Popular Accounts of the Greenwich Bombing in Conrad’s The Secret Agent’ Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature (2000) 54, pp. 43-64
8 Conrad to Edward Garnett 4 October 1907 in Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies (eds), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge 1988) vol. 3, p. 488
9 John Batchelor, The Life of Joseph Conrad. A Critical Biography (Oxford 1994) pp. 156-7 and Ian Watt, Essays on Conrad (Cambridge 2000) pp. 112ff.
10 Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (London 1963) quotations from pp. 74, 93,101-3, 265. See also Ben MacIntyre, ‘Insignificant, Shabby, Miserable - The Banal Stamp of a Terrorist’ The Times 13 May 2006 p. 21 for some astute reflections on literature and Britain’s 7/7 bombers
Chapter 4: Death in the Sun: Terror and Decolonisation
1 Stefan Wild, ‘Zum Selbstverstandnis palästinensisch-arabischer Nationalität’ in Helmut Mejcher (ed.), Die Palästina-Frage 1917-1948 (Paderborn 1993) p. 79
2 Anton La Guardia, War without End. Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for a Promised Land (New York 2003) p. 77. This is an extraordinarily fair-minded account by a distinguished British journalist of a conflict where rival passions mean that an agreed version is impossible
3 Yehoshuah Porath, The Palestinian Arab National Movement vol. 1: The Emergence of the Palestinian Arab National Movement 1918-29 (London 1974) pp. 31ff.
4 See A. J. Sherman, Mandate Days. British Lives in Palestine 1918-1948 (London 1997)
5 For this outline see Martin Gilbert’s fair-minded Israel. A History (London 1998) which sympathetically portrays the British view
6 See the discussion in Ilan Pappé, A History of Modern Palestine. One Land, Two Peoples (Cambridge 2004) especially pp. 109-16
7 Uri M. Kupferschmidt, The Supreme Muslim Council of Islam under the British Mandate for Palestine (Leiden 1987)p. 250
8 Martin Gilbert, Churchill and the Jews (London 2007)
9 Amos Perlmutter, The Life and Times of Menachem Begin (New York 1987) p. 33 is an outstanding guide to the politics of Revisionist Zionism
10 The best account of Hassan Salameh is in Michael Bar-Zohar and Eitan Haber, The Quest for the Red Prince (Guilford, Connecticut 1983) pp. 17-44
11 Naomi Shepherd, Ploughing Sand. British Rule in Palestine (London 1999) is a well-documented account
12 Porath, The Palestinian Arab National Movement pp. 178ff.
13 Joseph Heller, The Stern Gang. Ideology, Politics, and Terror 1940-1949 (London 1995) pp. 78-91
14 Gerald Cromer, ‘“In the Mirror of the Past”: The Use of History in the Justification of Terrorism’ Terrorism and Political Violence (1991) 3, p. 171
15 Michael Bar-Zohar, Ben-Gurion (London 1978) p. 123
16 As recalled by my late friend Amos Perlmutter
17 The Times 23 July 1946 p. 4 for the details of the bombing
18 Sherman, Mandate Days p. 205
19 Ibid., pp. 207-8
20 Christopher Sykes, Crossroads to Israel (London 1965) pp. 380-84. I am deeply grateful to the late Frank Johnson for recommending this fascinating book by a former diplomat and SAS officer during a memorable lunch hosted by Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper a few weeks before Frank died
21 Bruce Hoffman, Inside Terrorism (New York 2006) p. 53
22 See Ilan Pappé, The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1947-1951 (London 2001) pp. 87ff.
23 Abu Iyad, My Home, My Land: A Narrative of the Palestinian Struggle (New York 1981) pp. 4 and 12
24 Pappé, History of Modern Palestine p. 177
25 La Guardia, War without End p. 190
26 John Ruedy, Modern Algeria. The Origins and Development of a Nation (Bloomington, Indiana 2005) pp. 150-52
27 Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace. Algeria 1954-1962 (New York 2006) p. 17. This