About the book: 2015 / The Holy Land and Britain... From biblical times and the spread of Christianity, from the blood and fury of the Crusades - to political and diplomatic intrigues surrounding the creation of the modern state of Israel. From the imperial grandeur of Victorian colonialism to the seemingly inconspicuous events that led to the current conflicts in the Middle East. This is the path along which the famous writer Barbara Tuchman, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author, takes the reader. August guns»!