The Road To Beersheba - By Ethel Mannin

Hardcover first published 1963 by Hutchinson of London. The jacket is whole, but edge-worn and rubbed along the folds, with some minor chips and tears to the edges. The boards are square and solid. Apart from some light intermittent foxing throughout, the pages are clean and unmarked. "This is the story of the exodus from the small Palestinian town of Lydda, which was occupied by the Israeli troops in the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, when, with the surrounding villages, some hundred thousand people, mainly women, children and old men - the young men having been rounded up - trekked through the burning wilderness to Ramallah, which was in Arab hands."