Mandatory Palestine - Partner to Partition: The Jewish Agency’s Partition Plan in the Mandate Era, by Yossi Katz. xii + 209 pages, maps, notes, sources, index. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 1998. $24.50 (Paper) ISBN 0-7146-4846-9 - Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine 1917–1948, by Naomi Shepherd. x+290 pages, illustrations, maps, sources, notes, index. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000. $28.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8135-2765-1 - Palestine—A Twice-Promised Land? volume 1: The British, the Arabs & Zionism 1915–1920, by Isaiah Friedman, lxxvii+411 pages, maps, notes, appendices, index. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2000. $49.95 (Cloth) ISBN 1-56000-391-X