The Balfour Declaration

In the middle of the First World War, the British War Cabinet approved and issued a statement in the form of a letter that encouraged the settlement of the Jewish people in Palestine. Signed by the Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, the Balfour Declaration remains one of the most important documents of the last hundred years. Jonathan Schneer explores the story behind the declaration and its unforeseen consequences that have shaped the modern world, placing it in context paying attention to the fascinating characters who conceived, opposed and plotted around it - among them Lloyd George, Lord Rothschild, T.E. Lawrence, Prince Faisal and Aubrey Herbert (the man who was 'Greenmantle'). The Balfour Declaration brings vividly to life the origins of one of the world's longest lasting and most damaging conflicts.

ISBN 1408809702   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781408809709 (What's this?)   Pages 464 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC   Published in London Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC   Height (mm) 198 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 129 Publication date 01 Aug 2011   Spine width (mm) 28 DEWEY 956.04   Academic level General

'Splendid ... A marvellously well-researched, balanced, and clear-sighted guide to this hideously controversial territory' Dominic Sandbrook, Evening Standard 'Jonathan Schneer's lively new account is very much a tale for our times ... his book is interspersed with delightful vignettes' David Cesarini, Literary Review 'Why did Britain offer the Jews a home in Palestine? Had they not already offered Palestine to the Arabs, two years earlier? This extraordinarily well-documented and revealing book gives the answers' Martin Gilbert, Mail on Sunday 'An excellent and compelling portrait of the intrigues, characters and diplomacy that created the modern Middle East' Simon Sebag Montefiore

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