A Will To Survive. Israel: The Faces of Terror 1948 The Faces of Hope Today.
"It is the tragedy of out century that we have had to look so often into the eyes of ordinary human beings how, by no fault of their own, have been forced to experience the terror of war": First edition of A Will to Survive; signed by John Philips
A Will To Survive. Israel: The Faces of Terror 1948 The Faces of Hope Today.
PHILLIPS, John. Foreword by Golda Meir. Afterword by Teddy Kollek.
Item Number: 119038
New York: The Dial Press/James Wade, 1977.
First edition of the renowned photojournalist’s remarkable portrait of the people of Israel. Quarto, original boards, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Foreword by Golda Meir. Afterword by Teddy Kollek. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. Ownership inscriptions.
Perhaps the most remarkable portrait of the people of Israel ever to appear in print, John Phillips' A Will To Survive constitutes a near perfect cross-section of Israel. Phillips was in the Middle East in May of 1948 covering the birth of Israel for Life Magazine and when the assault was launched against the old Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem on the 18th, he was in the center of events. In 1976, an exhibition of these poignant and shattering photographs was mounted in the Israeli Museum in Jerusalem, resulting in record-breaking attendance.
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