Burn Mark: a Photographic Memoir of the Six Day War

by Avner Offer

The 1967 Six Day War in Jerusalem as described by Israeli soldier in words and pictures, taken at the time and on the spot. A selection of these pictures won the first prize in a post-war exhibition at the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art in 1968, and are kept in its collections. It is unusual for such powerful pictures of war to be taken by an ordinary soldier. The book was assembled in 1968 and has remained unpublished until now. It evokes the intimacy of a small unit in wartime, its moral dilemmas, and the life and death of one member of the company. It bears witness to the most charged moment of the war, the capture of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Images of Palestinian dismay foretell an historical dilemma which continues to unfold. The author subsequently became Chichele Professor of Economic History at Oxford, a Fellow All Souls College, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

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About the author

Avner Offer is an Economic historian who currently holds the Chichele Professorship in Economic history at the University of Oxford, England. He is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and of the British Academy. He specializes in international political economy, law, the First World War and land tenure. Over the past decade Professor Offer's main interest has been in post-war economic growth, particularly in affluent societies, and the challenges that this affluence presents to well being.