War Without End

"War Without End is a thorough, dispassionate look at the history [as well as] the contemporary, complex realities of the struggle between the Israelis and the Palestinians."—Los Angeles Times

"Part history, part cultural commentary, part political analysis, War Without End does the near-impossible: it covers the whole nine yards, from Jerusalem before Christ to the suicide bombing at a Passover seder in Netanya."—The Newark Star-Ledger

"In War Without End, La Guardia has produced a triumph. It is a work that suggests a sophisticated understanding of both the Israeli and Palestinian streets and power centers. It is, moreover, an essential handbook for foreign correspondents and others who aspire to instant expertise on a subject as complex and intractable as the Arab-Israeli conflict."—The Jerusalem Post

"La Guardia's beautifully written new account provides fresh insights that expand our understanding. Producing a book valuable to all points of the knowledge spectrum is an impressive accomplishment."—The Washington Post

"An excellent, balanced survey."—Kirkus Reviews

"Provides a sobering, richly textured account of today's Israel and its continuing Hundred Years War with the Palestinians."—The Daily Telegraph

"Most of the recent outstanding books about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have been either academic, from Israeli historians such as Benny Morris, or works of fine writing from authors such as David Grossman. The best by a reporter was generally thought to be Thomas Friedman's From Beirut to Jerusalem, but that was twelve years ago . . . La Guardia . . . has produced a better book, combining history and news reporting."—The Guardian

"[LaGuardia] cunningly juxtaposes accounts of important historical episodes and encounters with the individuals who are the conflict's 26protagonists and victims, to create a crowded panorama of incommensurate historical forces, cultures, and people, and in doing so turns the complexity of the subject into a literary virtue."—The Evening Standard

"This is fundamentally an examination of two wounded peoples, neither of whom seems capable of surmounting national myths and past hatreds to forge a new future. La Guardia is even-handed in his criticism of both Israeli and Palestinian leaders, but he does not spare ordinary people, attacking them for their inability to give up unrealistic and destructive goals. As for solutions, he seems to feel that some form of international coercion applied to both sides offers the best hope, but he recognizes that even that road has major pitfalls. This is an absorbing but heartbreaking examination of a seemingly endless tragedy that continues to unfold before our eyes."—Jay Freeman, Booklist

"Journalist Anton La Guardia, diplomatic editor for the Daily Telegraph and for eight years its Middle East correspondent, offers an informed and objective history of the Middle East battles . . . Tracing the Zionist movement back to its 19th-century roots, as well as the birth of national identity of the Palestinians among whom the Zionists settled, La Guardia offers general readers a balanced background to what many fear may well be a war without end."—Publishers Weekly