With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Barbara Tuchman, explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state--and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today.(at)lt, br(at)gt, "Barbara Tuchman is a wise and witty writer, a shrewd observer with a lively command of high drama."(at)lt, br(at)gt, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER