Bible and Sword

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"NO OTIIFR PROBFFM OF OUR T1MF IS SO DFFPIY ROOTFf) IN FI II FÁST." The Feel Commission oflnquiry, on Palestine Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning histórián Barbara Tuchman explores the complex relationship % of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of j the modern Jewish state-and to many of the problems that plague the Middle Fást texlay. ^^^^^^ Fromearly times the British people have been drawn to the Moly Land through two major influences: the translation of the Bible into English and, later, the imperial need to control the road to India and access to the oil of the Middle East. Under these influences, one cultural and the other political-military, countless Englishmen-pilgrims, crusaders, missionaries, merchants, explorers, and surveyors-have pursued their way to the land of the ancient Hebrews. With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, Barbara Tuchman brings to life the development of these twin motives-the Bible and the Sword-in the consciousness... Tovább

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"NO OTIIFR PROBFFM OF OUR T1MF IS SO DFFPIY ROOTFf) IN FI II FÁST." The Feel Commission oflnquiry, on Palestine Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning histórián Barbara Tuchman explores the complex relationship % of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of j the modern Jewish state-and to many of the problems that plague the Middle Fást texlay. ^^^^^^ Fromearly times the British people have been drawn to the Moly Land through two major influences: the translation of the Bible into English and, later, the imperial need to control the road to India and access to the oil of the Middle East. Under these influences, one cultural and the other political-military, countless Englishmen-pilgrims, crusaders, missionaries, merchants, explorers, and surveyors-have pursued their way to the land of the ancient Hebrews. With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, Barbara Tuchman brings to life the development of these twin motives-the Bible and the Sword-in the consciousness of the British people, until they were finally brought together at the end of World War I when Britains conquest of Palestine from the Turks and the solemn moment of entering Jerusaiem were imminent. Requiring a gesture of matching significance, that event evoked the Balfour Declaration of 1917, establishing a British-sponsored national home for the modern survivors of the people of the Old Testament. In her account, first published in 1956, Mrs. Tuchman demonstrates that the seeds of today's troubles were planted long before the first eflforts at founding a modern state of Israel. "In her métier as a narrative popular historical writer, Barbara Tuchman is supreme." CHICAGO SUN-TIMES "Barbara Tuchman is a wise and witty writer, a shrewd observer with a lively command of high drama." PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Vissza