Bible and Sword : England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour (Paperback)

from walterhistory

Ms Tuchman's work on this subject covers 2,000 years of British & Israel's history. Covering a long period of time is a difficult task & by necessity informative read. There is a lot to digest but she does a good job giving the background history leading up to the Balfour Declaration of 1917. Her...

from Devil_llama

A masterful survey of the relationship between England and Israel, drawn back to the time before there was an England. The author traces the major players in the millennia of events that led toward the Balfour Declaration, and concludes that the declaration was not inevitable until a particular p...

from KirkLowery

This was Barbara Tuchman's first published work, and it shows already her ability to tell a great narrative. In this case, she tells the story of how Great Britain came to be so involved with the reestablishment of the nation of Israel, although the story only goes up to the Balfour Declaration.T...

from kukulaj

The fifth book I've read of Tuchman's! I didn't know what to expect, but, as usual, a splendid romp! I have the impression this was the first book she wrote, if not the first published. She is looking at the Balfour Declaration - how did it come to be? Certainly Britain wanted to plant itself on ...

from kukulaj

The fifth book I've read of Tuchman's! I didn't know what to expect, but, as usual, a splendid romp! I have the impression this was the first book she wrote, if not the first published. She is looking at the Balfour Declaration - how did it come to be? Certainly Britain wanted to plant itself on ...