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A quick decision changed his life forever. How did Eli, always in danger and besieged by his fears, escape Masada's downfall? Eli flees an arranged marriage. All he'd ever wanted -- was to marry Chavah, the lovely neighbor girl and farm Galilee's olive groves. His perilous journey takes him to Jerusalem as a zealot fighter -- then to Masada, the final holdout of Jewish rebels. In year 73, Rome's Tenth Legion, under General Flavius Silva, succeeded in conquering the desert fortress -- only to discover that 960 men, women and children chose death at their own hand, rather than suffer Roman...

The Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History consists of a series of 2-volume encyclopedias that provides a broad overview of one particular topic throughout American history, from pre-colonial times until today, with special emphasis placed on how the topic--whether war or government and politics--effects, and is affected by, political, economic, and social change in American and global society. Each set is organized chronologically, by era or event, into 10-15 chapters. Each chapter features an introductory essay on the era or event followed by entries grouped under consistent subheads. Each set...