Promise and fulfilment: Palestine, 1917-1949

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good in fair dust jacket. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips.. xv, 335 p. map. 23 cm. Occasional footnotes. As a wartime correspondent, the author's presents excerpts from his diary; also includes the events leading up to the formation of the Jewish State of Israel. From Wikipedia: "Arthur Koestler, CBE (5 September 1905 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-British author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931 Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany until, disillusioned by Stalinism, he resigned in 1938. In 1940 he published his novel Darkness at Noon, an anti-totalitarian work, which gained him international fame. Over the next 43 years from his residence in Great Britain, Koestler espoused many political causes and wrote novels, memoirs, biographies, and numerous essays. In 1968, he was awarded the Sonning Prize "for outstanding contribution to European culture" and, in 1972, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 1976, Koestler was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and, in 1979, with terminal leukaemia. In 1983 he and his wife committed suicide at home in London."