While the book offers firsthand account of historical events in the Levant during the early 20th century, it is necessary to approach this book with an awareness of the author’s biases and prejudices written by Jewish individual seeking American citizenship. The book reflects a perspective that can

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Good short book. Many books from WW1 carry writing v styles carried over from Victorian era. It's good to get a flavor of the average person in a less covered area such as the Middle East. This is especially the case since its what I might think of as a double minority, that being a Jewish sub

Very good book.

A short experience with Turkish courts and Turkish justice taught our people that they would have to establish a legal system of their own; two collaborating judges were therefore appointed—one to interpret the Mosaic law, another to temper it with modern jurisprudence. All Jewish disputes were sett

This is an account of a Jewish man's experiences during the beginning of WW1 in Palestine. It is a bit annoying to read at times because the author is rather racist towards Arabs, an ingrained sort of racism that reminded me of the attitude of racist people in the Deep South towards Black people, wh

A curious little book, giving a good flavour of what it was like to be conscripted into the Ottoman army in the first world war (hint: not exactly a bed of roses). Although the author saw no action, a number of entertaining and exciting anecdotes are described with verve. Aaronsohn was from the smal

I think the author has a race problem. He hates the arabs thinking that the Jews are better than them in all aspects which personally I disagree.