History of the Jews

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"The world tended to see the Jews as a race which ruled itself in antiquity and set down its records in the Bible; had then gone underground for many centuries; had emerged at last only to be slaughtered by the Nazis; and, finally had created a state of its own, controversial and beleaguered. But these were merely salient episodes. I wanted to link them together, to find and study the missing portions, assemble them into a whole, and make sense of it" Paul Johnson in his Prologue

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A tour de force...A remarkable achievement * NEW YORK TIMES *
A marvellous book ... This is history: richly textured, provocative and wise * PLAIN DEALER *

Author Bio

AUTHOR INFORMATION Paul Johnson was born in 1928 and educated at Stonyhurst and Magdalen College, Oxford. He has enjoyed a varied career, which includes army service and international journalism. He has contributed to many of the world's most famous newspapers and magazines and has travelled to all five continents to report events, interview presidents and prime ministers for the press and TV, and to lecture to academic and business audiences. He is married to the public affairs administrator Marigold Johnson and has four grown-up children.