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Jon Kimche was a journalist and historian. A Swiss Jew, he arrived in England at the age of 12, becoming involved in the Independent Labour Party as a young man. In 1934–35, he worked with George Orwell in a Hampstead bookshop, Booklover’s Corner, and later managed the ILP's bookshop at 35 Bride Street, near Ludgate Circus. As chair of the ILP Guild of Youth, he visited Barcelona in 1937, where he again met Orwell.

Selected books
• (1950): Seven Fallen Pillars: The Middle East, 1915-1950. London: Secker & Warburg. • (1955): with David Kimche, The Secret Roads: The "Illegal" Migration of a People, 1938-1948 (with plates, including portraits, and a map). London: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. • (1960): with David Kimche, Both Sides of the Hill: Britain and the Palestine War. London: Secker & Warburg. • US edition (1960): with David Kimche, A Clash of Destinies: The Arab-Jewish War and the Founding of the State of Israel. New York: Frederick A. Praeger. • (1962): Spying for Peace: General Guisan and Swiss Neutrality (3rd edition). London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. • (1968): The Unfought Battle. New York: Stein and Day. • (1968): The Unromantics: The Great Powers and the Balfour Declaration. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. • (1969): with David Kimche, ''La Premiere Guerre d'Israel 1948: 16 Cartes''. Paris: Arthaud. • (1970): The Second Arab Awakening. London: Thames & Hudson. • (1973): Palestine or Israel: The Untold Story Of Why We Failed, 1917-1923, 1967-1973. London: Secker & Warburg. • US edition (1973): There Could Have Been Peace: The Untold Story of Why We Failed With Palestine and Again With Israel. New York: Dial Press. ==References==
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