Off The Wagon

Previously, here, I wrote about a book, Burda's Wagon by a Mike Davis (and here's my letter to TLS).

While recently in NY, I stopped by Strand Bookstore to flip through the few pages on the Jewish undergrounds and found a good few silly errors.

Here are some of them:

p. 18     The name of the founder of Lechi, the 'Stern Group', was Avraham not Avram.

p. 19     The bombing in Jerusalem involving a taxi in 1946 was Irgun, not Lechi.

p. 20     While noting a January 12, 1947 Irgun attack, he claims previously on p. 4 that the car bomb apparatus was fully conceptualized by the Lechi earlier. 
Bit of a mix-up.

p. 20     The Goldschmidt attack did not exactly involve a car bomb.  The jeep broke through the fence, the sappers then unloaded explosives from the car into the building. (*)

I probably did not catch all as I was standing in an aisle, jotting down things in not that an organized fashion.

This is research?

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(*)   Here's the official first report:

1 MARCH 1947


At approximately 3.20 p.m. on 1st March, 1947, truck No. M740R drove into King George Avenue, Jerusalem, from Keran Kayemeth Street through the barbed wire surrounding Goldsmith House Officers Club in King George Avenue. One person dismounted and placed a package in the building. At the same time, automatic fire was opened upon the sentries at Goldsmith House from the vicinity of the houses adjacent to the Synagogue in King George Avenue. The sentries replied. A small explosion occurred at this time at the rear of the East side of Goldsmith House which set a tent on fire. During exchange of shots, a number of persons dressed in Khaki as British O.R.'s jumped from the truck and ran away. A heavy explosion then occurred causing extensive damage to Goldsmith House. Shortly before the explosion, a police vehicle proceeding along King George Avenue in the direction of Goldsmith House, was caught in cross-fire. Mr. Beynon, British Clerical Officer of Police H.Q., was killed and Inspector Price, British Constable Church and Mr. Cleary, British Clerical Officer of Police H.Q., were wounded. Casualties as known at present are twelve dead, including Jewish female Telephone Operator, fifteen injured. At least three more bodies are believed to be under the rubble.

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