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Martin Watts. The Jewish Legion and the First World War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 243. $65.00.

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Martin Watts. The Jewish Legion and the First World War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 243. $65.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2012

Michael J. Cohen
Michael J. Cohen
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Bar-Ilan University
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 212 - 214
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Copyright © North American Conference of British Studies 2006

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References

1 These themes have been dealt with already, by, among others, Holmes, Colin, Anti-Semitism in British Society, 1876–1939 (London: Arnold, 1979)Google Scholar; Stansky, Peter, Sassoon: The Words of Philip and Sybil (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003)Google Scholar; and my own Churchill and the Jews (London: Frank Cass, 1985; paper ed., 2003)Google Scholar.

2 Stein, Leonard, The Balfour Declaration (London: Mitchell, 1961), 324Google Scholar.

3 On Balfour's ambivalent attitude to Zionism and the Jews, see my Churchill, 16–17, 20.

4 Wasserstein, Bernard, The British in Palestine: The Mandatory Government and the Arab-Jewish Conflict, 1917–1929 (London, 1979)Google Scholar.

5 On the strategic motives behind the British desire to control Palestine, see Vereté, Mayir's seminal article, “The Origins of the Balfour Declaration,” Middle Eastern Studies 6, no. 1 (January 1970): 48–76Google Scholar; also Cohen, Michael J., The Origins and Evolution of the Arab-Zionist Conflict (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987)Google Scholar.

6 On the conflicts between the Jewish Establishment and the Zionists, cf. Cohen, Stuart, English Zionists and British Jews (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.