One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev (

One Palestine, Complete by Tom Segev. Author Tom Segev. The British brought Palestine into the twentieth century. Great Britain ruled Palestine from 1917 to 1948. Among the personalities who shape this narrative are Lawrence of Arabia, Winston Churchill, the archaeologist Flinders Petrie, King Feisal, Chaim Weizmann and David Ben Gurion.