First Time in Paperback.
The original classic text in two volumes with a new modern format. Volume Two covers the years 1923-1940. It was written when many of the events and people described were still fresh in the public’s mind.
Menachem Begin’s Foreword to the 1986 edition (Volume One) was his first public pronouncement after his retirement as Prime Minister of Israel.
Of Jabotinsky, a man he knew intimately, he writes: “He wrote of Jewish strength before it came into being; of revolt before it took place; of a Jewish army while its weapons were still a dream; of a Jewish state when many of our contemporaries still derided its very mention and of Hadar (honor, respect)while the manners—or lack of them—of the Ghetto still prevailed in our people.
Of this biography and its author, Begin relates: “Indeed, not many were privileged to know Jabotinsky as Schechtman did. Therefore, anyone who wants to study the history of Jabotinsky’s struggle for the redemption of the Jewish people, for the renewal of its strength, for the liberation of its land, for the re-creation of its independent State should read this unique biography of Ze’ev Jabotinsky.”