''Underground to Palestine'' is a 1946 book by American journalist I. F. Stone chronicling some of the hundreds of thousands of

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attempting to reach the Jewish homeland in

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from post-WWII displaced persons camps. Stone travels with the Haganah to Europe, where he joins a group of displaced persons (DPs) as they travel across the continent seeking a clandestine port of embarcation, joins an illegal convoy, runs the British blockade, and lands illegally in

. Stone wrote that displaced persons made strenuous efforts to reach the Jewish homeland of Israel although it would have been far easier to emigrate to the United States because Writing in ''

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'', journalist John R. MacArthur judges the book better than John Reed's ''

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Publishing history

The book first appeared as a series of articles published in ''PM'', which won the Newspaper Guild of New York, Page One award in 1947. In 1978 the book was reprinted with the title ''Underground to Palestine and Reflections Thirty Years Later''. It contained two extra chapters (''Confessions of a Jewish Dissident'' and ''The Other Zionism'') both of which had originally appeared as articles published in the ''

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dissentmagazine.org ''Underground to Palestine'' at one point went out of print, possibly because of Stone's unpopular position favoring a binational Palestine.

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