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Sub-titled 'From Theodore Herzl to the Dream for Peace', this is a timely summary of the modern Zionist movement which launched just over 125 years ago. On 4th December 1947, pictured are exuberant Jewish young people driving through the streets of Tel Aviv celebrating the passing of the United Nations Partition Plan on 29th November with its advocacy of Jewish statehood. They had called for a Jewish State in their ancestral land, Palestine, a land then ruled by the Turks. It was never a smooth process. The local Arab population, with whom Zionists wished to live in friendship, were inflamed by extremist leaders to oppose the Zionist enterprise with increasing violence. Bloodshed marred the early years of struggle, nation building and creativity and of course has resumed just so very recently. Israel was established so that Jews anywhere in the world, out of need or choice, could have a homeland of their own. Five wars tested Israel's ability to survive and despite conflict and terror, their efforts still continue to this day. Through rare documents, photographs, maps and Sir Martin Gilbert's illuminating text we look at the Balfour Declaration 1917, the Liberation of Palestine 1918, Palestine Under British Rule 1917-1923, the Opening of the Hebrew University 1925, Jewish Immigration Curtailed in 1939, the Second World War, Jerusalem under Siege 1948, The War of Independence 1948-49, The Exodus from Arab Lands 1948-1958, The Six-Day War June 6th 1967, The October War 1973, Soviet Exodus 1948-1991, The War In Lebanon 1982, The Long Hard Road to Negotiations 1982-1991, Oslo and Beyond, The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin 1955 and The Peace Process into the 21st Century 1996-2011. Well illustrated, 160 large pages.