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

From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August, comes history thru a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Britain’s long relationship with Palestine & the Middle E…

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