Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour by Barbara W. Tuchman
Requirements: .MP3 reader, 345 MB
Overview: From early times, the British people have been drawn to the Holy 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 in the Middle East. Under these influences, one cultural and the other political, countless Englishmen – pilgrims, crusaders, missionaries, merchants, explorers, and surveyors – have made their way to the land of the ancient Hebrews.With the lucidity and vividness that characterizes 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 Britain’s conquest of Palestine from the Turks and the solemn moment of entering Jerusalem 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.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction
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