Two good ones that cover the greater geopolitical situation surrounding the creation of Israel are Balfour and Weizmann: The Zionist, the Zealot and the Emergence of Israel by Geoffrey Lewis and The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Jonathan Schneer. The Jewish Revolution; Jewish Statehood by Israel Eldad is the essential Zionist manifesto, and Terror Out of Zion: Irgun Zvai Leumi, Lehi, and the Palestine Underground, 1929 1949 by J. Bowyer Bell and The Stern Gang by Frank Cass explain how the Lehi and other militant Zionist groups went about removing Britain from the region in order to form the modern Israeli state.