Author: COHEN, GEULA; HALKIN, HILLEL [TRANSLATOR]
Title: Woman of Violence: Memoirs of a Young Terrorist, 1943-1948
Description: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, Limited, 1966. First English Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Woods, Miriam. 275 pages. Footnotes. "Geula Cohen [1925-2019] was a ranking member of the notorious Stern Gang in its fight against the British for a free Palestine (Israel). Her memoirs explode with the ferocious intensity of her terrorist faith, her inflexible idealism. An open and intimate portrait of a woman, and the conditions that drove her underground to embrace a philosophy of violence and terror." - dust jacket. "I have no doubt that [this book] will be a proud memorial to the daring fighters who offered their lives for the cause of Jewish redemption. It also attests to the supreme nobility of the soul of its writer." - David Ben-Gurion. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Moderate lean to spine. Soiling to back panel of dust jacket which is otherwise moderately worn and now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Geula Cohen, Biography, Stern Gang, Zionism, Founding of Israel, Terrorism, Palestine , Radio broadcasts, Eliyauus Hakim, Beit Zuri, Moshe Barazani, Meir Feinstein. Good in Good dust jacket .

Keywords: History Judaica