Library

This set includes The Bible and the Sword: Britain and Palestine-From the Bronze Age to the Balfour Declaration and The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire: The First World War in the Middle East, 1914-1920. "The Bible and the Sword: Britain and Palestine - From the Bronze Age to the Balfour Declaration" is the debut novel of Barbara Tuchman, who is known as an "artist among historians". This book describes how in the long history from the origin of Britain to the Balfour Declaration, cultural motivations and political motivations-that is, the Bible and the "sword"-shaped Britain's Near East policy and profoundly affected the historical process of the modern Middle East. "The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire: World War I in the Middle East, 1914-1920" vividly recreates the Middle East during World War I and describes the role of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War.