A joyous tune for a baleful year.

Erich von Falkenhayn, Jamal Pasha, and a narrow escape.

Setting the record straight about Versailles, Weimar, and Hitler.

An official report likened the ouster of the Turks to the defeat of the Seleucid Greeks by the Maccabees.

World Wars I, II, and III.

The Kaiser’s jihad.

When Allenby marched into Jerusalem.

A city where Jews were once the majority.

Hermann Struck’s World War I.

Tel Hai’s other hero.

The Berlin Makkabis.

The Star of David men.

A daring, and successful, World War I cavalry charge.

The Briton who spent World War II broadcasting Nazi propaganda.