EFRAIM KARSH is Professor
and Head of the Mediterranean
Studies Programme at King’s
College, University of London.
He has held various academic
posts at the Sorbonne, the
London School of Economics,
Columbia University, Helsinki
University and Tel-Aviv
University. Professor Karsh has
published extensively on Middle
Eastern affairs, Soviet foreign
policy and European neutrality.
PROFESSOR ROBERT O'NEILL,
AO D.PHIL. (Oxon), Hon D.
Litt.(ANU), FASSA, Fr Hist S,
is the Series Editor of the Essential
Histories. His wealth of knowledge
and expertise shapes the series
content and provides up-to-the-
minute research and theory. Born
in 1936 an Australian citizen, he
served in the Australian army
(1955-68) and has held a number
of eminent positions in history
circles, including the Chichele
Professorship of the History of
War at All Souls College,
University of Oxford, 1987-2001,
and the Chairmanship of the
Board of the Imperial War
Museum and the Council of the
International Institute for
Strategic Studies, London.
He is the author of many books
including works on the German
Army and the Nazi party, and
the Korean and Vietnam wars.
Now based in Australia on his
retirement from Oxford he is
the Chairman of the Council
of the Australian Strategic
Policy Institute.Essential Histories
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
The Palestine War 1948
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