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.
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