Part1. Introduction and background
1. The Second World War: The strategic situation in Palestine and military operations in the Middle East (1939?1945)
2. Political background: The Jewish-Arab conflict and the British government.
Part2. Living in wartime
3. Civil defence, rationing, and press censorship.
4. Anxious days, 1941 and
1942.
5. The Templers in Palestine in the Second World War: The end of an era.
6. Spies and counterspies.
7. The German ? Arab parachuted mission, October 1944 (Operation Atlas).
8. State control of radio and propaganda.
Part3. Living in Jerusalem.
9. Communities and social life.
10. Hotels, cafes, cinemas, and tourism.
11. The New Jerusalem: A history of two neighborhoods.
12. The Arab leadership in the war: Prominent families and politics.
Part4. Writing on Jerusalem
13. Writers and poets: Seeing the city through their eyes.
Part5. History moves on
14. Jerusalem 1945?1948