Interviews: Subject Files, Operation Nachson, Fighting., 1948

File — Box: 2, Folder: 33

Identifier: 89688

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

Additional Description

Container Summary

Contains the typed notes taken from the interviews and research conducted by Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre and their staff related to the fighting that resulted from 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, FIGHTING, 1948: Typescript

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

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

ARAB-ISRAELI WAR, 1948 - O JERU INTRVWS & RES RE OPR NACHSON, FIGHTNG: Typescript

KASTEL - O JERU INTRVWS & RES RE OPER NACHSON, FIGHTING AT, 1948: Typescript