A Haganah fighter dashes across a human bridge over barbed wire, Tel Aviv, 1948. Everett Collection Inc/Alamy.
In the years between 1945 and the formation of the State of Israel in 1948, the British struggled to rule Palestine. At the centre of their problems were four highly active Zionist insurgent groups: Haganah and the Palmach, Irgun and Lehi.
