This is the story of the violent confrontation between two national movements contesting the same small piece of land in the Middle East. From the revolt of 1936-39 to the Intifada that began in 2000, Israelis and Palestinians have clashed in a dozen major incidents, sometimes in sustained guerrilla insurgency and other times in wars that embroiled much of the Arab world, such as the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War. These twelve accounts detail each conflict--its causes, course, and consquences--and, taken together, provide an overview of seventy years of Israeli military history.