Holy Wars

“A compelling tale of how this spiritually and politically charged area of the globe has long been a place of pivotal battles” ( Library Journal ). Today’s Arab-Israeli conflict is merely the latest iteration of an unending history of violence in the Holy Land—a region that is unsurpassed as witness to a kaleidoscopic military history involving forces from across the world and throughout the millennia. Holy Wars describes three thousand years of war in the Holy Land with the unique approach of f