Bible and sword
Subtitle: England and Palestine from the bronze age to Balfour
By: [by] Barbara W. Tuchman.
Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Zionism -- History.; Great Britain -- Relations -- Palestine.; Palestine -- Relations -- Great Britain.
Description: 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.
Notes: "Bibliography and notes": p. 351-390.
"Reprinted without alteration from the original edition of 1956."