The Revolt (also published as
Revolt,
The Revolt: Inside Story of the Irgun and
The Revolt: the Dramatic Inside Story of the Irgun) is a book about the militant Zionist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi, by one of its principal leaders,
Menachem Begin' was an Israel politician and the sixth prime minister of the State of Israel. Before the independence, he was the leader of the Irgun, a revisionist breakaway from the larger mainstream Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah...
. In Israel, the organization is commonly called Etzel, based on its Hebrew acronym.
The book traces the development of the Irgun from its early days in the 1930s, through its years of violent struggle in the Palestine Mandate against both
BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
rule (the "revolt" of the title) and
ArabArab people or Arabs are an ethnic group whose members identify along linguistic, cultural or genealogical grounds...
opposition, to the outbreak of the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.
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The Revolt (also published as
Revolt,
The Revolt: Inside Story of the Irgun and
The Revolt: the Dramatic Inside Story of the Irgun) is a book about the militant Zionist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi, by one of its principal leaders,
Menachem Begin' was an Israel politician and the sixth prime minister of the State of Israel. Before the independence, he was the leader of the Irgun, a revisionist breakaway from the larger mainstream Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah...
. In Israel, the organization is commonly called Etzel, based on its Hebrew acronym.
The book traces the development of the Irgun from its early days in the 1930s, through its years of violent struggle in the Palestine Mandate against both
BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
rule (the "revolt" of the title) and
ArabArab people or Arabs are an ethnic group whose members identify along linguistic, cultural or genealogical grounds...
opposition, to the outbreak of the Israeli War of Independence in 1948. The book is also part autobiographical, tracing Begin's own political development.
First published in English in 1951, the book has gone through many editions and reprints, with the latest edition published in 2002.
The political scientist John Bowyer Bell who studied both the
IrgunIrgun was a militant Zionist group that operated in the British mandate of Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was an offshoot of the earlier and larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah...
and the
Irish Republican ArmyThe Irish Republican Army was an Irish republican revolutionary military organisation. It was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916...
recalled that many of the IRA men whom he interviewed in the 1960s had read The Revolt and admired it as a manual of guerrilla warfare.