Lord Turnberg, after a career in medicine in which he was successively Professor of Medicine in Manchester, a Dean of its Medical School, President of the Royal College of Physicians, and now a member of the House of Lords, turned his attentions to the history of Israel and the Middle East. His first book, on the 100 years quest for Israeli-Palestinian peace, was published in 2017. This is his second, more detailed, analysis of the Mandate years. He lives in London with his wife Edna.