War Novels The Red Badge of courage by Stephen Crane detailed the inner turmoil suffered by a young Union soldier during his the first time in combat. The meeting with captured Confederate soldiers where Ohio met Tennessee for equally the first time was disarming. What was life and war about? War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy is set against the backdrop of elegant ballrooms yet fully contrasting with the bloody battle of Austerlitz. The novel grandly searched for the soul of Russi

Palestine in 2017 In 1916 Britain and France, by means of the Sykes/Picot treaty divided the Middle East between them. The 1919 Balfour Declaration created a homeland, in Palestine, for the Jewish people. Britain withdrew from Palestine following the killing of 90 people at the King David Hotel, Jerusalem in 1948. 3,000 Israeli police and troops removed hundreds of illegal Jewish settlers occupying privately owned Palestinian land, February 1, 2017, Amona, Israel. Israel emba