When World War I broke out in Europe, a young diplomat was sent to Jerusalem to take charge of the Spanish consulate in the city. Conde de Ballobar recorded the events he witnessed and described his experiences and opinions in a unique document that has become an invaluable reso…
This diary, kept between 1914 and 1919 by the Spanish consul in Jerusalem, offers insight into the wartime upheavals, battles among local churches over control of the city's holy places, the development of Zionism, and the establishment of British rule in Palestine.
"When World War I broke out in Europe in the autumn of 1914, a young diplomat was sent to Jerusalem to take charge of the Spanish consulate in the city. Antonio de la Cierva y Lewita, better known as Conde de Ballobar, recorded the events he witnessed and described his experienc…