Ian Black: Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 [2018] paperback PHOTO At a time when the

At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces

returns wounded and ashamed from the bloody chaos of the Eastern front to find his village home much changed and existing in the dark shadow of an SS rest hut - a luxurious retreat for those who manage the concentration camps

From the women who transformed stalks of flax into linen to clothe their families in nineteenth century New England to those who earn their dowries in the cotton-spinning factories of South India today

and I will not forget

fast-paced thriller from a master storyteller

Ian Black: Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 [2018] paperback PHOTO At a time when theECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Comprehensive and compelling A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians' Justin Marozzi, The Times A century after Britain's Balfour Declaration promised a Jewish 'national home' in Palestine, veteran Guardian journalist Ian Black has produced a major new history of one of the most polarising conflicts of the