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Bible and sword

England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour

by Barbara Tuchman

1982 412 pages eng

Discusses the complex relationship between Britain and Palestine; its basis on Biblical history, the need to control India, and the need to access Middle Eastern oil; and the dynamics which led to the founding of the modern Jewish state.

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