David Pryce-Jones
Trouble In Palestine
Major Farran's Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain’s War Against Jewish Terrorism, 1945–1948
By David Cesarani
Heinemann 290pp £20 order from our bookshop
A last-minute addition to the British Empire, Palestine was always troublesome. The British presence there brought no very clear political or strategic advantage, only an immense moral dilemma. Nobody had the imagination or the skills to reconcile the local Arabs and Jews, two communities with cultural and national values in complete opposition, as is still in evidence today.
Sign Up to our newsletter
Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more.@Lit_Review
Follow Literary Review on Twitter
Read more for less
Use code 'SPRING3FOR5'
https://mymagazinesub.co.uk/literary-review/promo/spring3for5/
The Disney film 'created the "standard version" that no fairy tale should ever have, for these are stories that are elastic, mischievous ... becoming slightly different with each telling'.
@LucyLethbridge on the story of Snow White.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/beauty-beastliness
His 'star – in the way writers’ reputations unfathomably come and go – shines less brightly than it once did, unfairly I think.'
@saradwheeler recalls visiting the home of the Bronxite E L Doctorow.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/doctorows-orders