Volume 31, Number 4 · March 15, 1984
Israel in Embryo
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
The High Walls of Jerusalem: A History of the Balfour Declaration and the Birth of the British Mandate for Palestine
by Ronald Sanders
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 746 pp., $24.95
Ronald Sanders's book is both valuable (with one large reservation, of which more below) and highly readable. It differs from the two previous principal studies of the subject—Leonard Stein's The Balfour Declaration (1961) and Isaiah Friedman's The Question of Palestine, 1914-1918 (1973)—mainly in that it takes in a panoramic sweep of British activities in relation to the Middle East during the First World War, whereas the two earlier studies tended to concentrate on the declaration and/or on the limited context of Palestine.
Review, 5129 words
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