With 120 pages of photographs illustrating this is a splendid updated narrative.MY The Story of the Jews is the account-epic & moving—of a small people unique from any other, whose history has had a profound influence on the entire human condition. Here's a sampling of reviews of the hardcover edition of the"Fascinating...written with knowledge, perception, lucidity eloquence & passion."—Nelson Glueck, NY Times Book Review"Masterful...Israel's foreign minister who has been called a blend of Shakespeare & Churchill, gives his personal evaluation of the forces, events & personalities that shaped Jewish destiny."—Walter Berkov, Cleveland Plain Dealer"Stirring...The best short history of a long-lived people."—John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate

Great Britain ruled Palestine from 1918 to 1948, replacing 500 years of Turkish control and leading to the State of Israel, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1998. The British brought Palestine into the 20th century. When they arrived the country lay in a Levantine nirvana; by the time they left it had become the arena for one of the century's major international conflicts. Among the personalities who shape this narrative are Winston Churchill, the archaeologist Flinders Petrie, King Feisal, Chaim Weizmann and David Ben Gurion. One momentous consequence of these 30 years was that at the end of World War I there were 10 Arabs for every Jew. Based on diaries, letters and first-hand accounts, this is a narrative history of Palestine under Crown rule.

History of the Jews [Nov 01, 1982] Sachar, Abram Leon

1929. With fifty animated maps by the author, giving a pictorial history of centuries of wandering. Browne writes in the prologue that while this story may have been told, yet it cries out to be told still again. From beginning to end it pleads to be retold, and not as a list of names and dates, but as a wild adventure, as a romance. For the whole history of the Jewish people is a romance; the strangest, the most colorful in the saga of all mankind.