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Interviews: Subject Files, Operation Nachson, Abdul Khader's Death, 1948

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 32
Identifier: 89687

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection contains the research and subject files, interview tapes, including transcripts, and related material of the noted writer and journalist Larry Collins. Included in this collection are the materials for Collins' five collaborative works with French journalist and writer Dominique Lapierre, as well as the three novels he authored alone. The collection has been arranged chronologically according to the dates of publication for his works. The collectins holds material related to all of Collins' nine books, excluding his compilations of Lord Louis Mountbatten's papers.

Dates

  • 1948

Collection-level Access Restrictions

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Extent

From the Collection: 22 Cubic Feet (22 boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Container Summary

Contains the typed notes taken from the interviews and research conducted by Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre and their staff related to Abdul Khader's death during the spring 1948 Jewish military effort to open the roads to Jerusalem code-named Operation Nachson, in both French and English.

Subjects and Associated Physical Materials

O JERUSALEM - INTRVWS & RES RE OPERATION NACHSON, KHADER'S DTH, 1948: Typescript

OPERATION NACHSON, 1948 - O JERU INTRVWS & RES RE KHADER, 1948: Typescript

JERUSALEM - O JERU INTRVWS & RES RE OPER NACHSON, KHADER, 1948: Typescript

ARAB-ISRAELI WAR, 1948 - O JERU INTRVWS & RES RE OPER NACHSON, KHADER: Typescript

KHADER, ABDUL - O JERU INTRVWS & RES RE OPER NACHSON, 1948: Typescript

Repository Details

Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository

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