Mandate Days
Subtitle: British Lives in Palestine, 1918-1948
Edition: Johns Hopkins Paperbacks Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: April 27, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780801866203
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Colonization & independence; Social history; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; c 1945 to c 1960; Judaism - General; History; History - General History; History: World; Middle East - General; Middle East - Israel; History / Africa; Europe - Great Britain - General; 1917-1948; British; Palestine
First sentence: The British Mandate in Palestine, surely one of the least glorious episodes in the history of the Empire, was nonetheless one of the great dramas in that history, productive of more emotion and certainly more criticism than any other part of the vast enterprise.