The Israel-Arab conflict has been running like forever. The conflict has been portrayed in various historical treatises and political works. Batya Casper, the prolific author of historical novels Israel called Hidden and Israela brings her immense experience and in-depth knowledge for the readers. The historical novel Israel brings a closer view of the conflict. You can order at Amazon!

1. Batya Casper is comprised of two novellas -
Hidden and Hanover Gardens

2. Hidden:
Woven from the fabric of many lives & separate decades, a story of
loss, guilt, & hope.
The story opens with an old man falling down the stairs like a bird
from the sky, and a stranger in a yellow dress, purple jacket and
boots, opening the front door and claiming to be “next of kin.” It is
about a young woman who, for 10 years, refuses to come out of her
room; a vagrant who roams the streets at night mumbling to herself,
tending to broken birds and stray cats; an older woman who sleeps
her life away in her living-room chair; a man who nurses a pain in his
chest as he struggles to mend the lives of those around him; and a
girl who grows up among people who refuse to tell her who she is,
who her parents were, what they looked like, or why they didn’t care
enough to “stick around and watch me grow.”

3. Hanover Gardens
Unlike the vagrant they call the “little lost boy,” the sisters huddle
underground with the members of their host household as the bombs
screech above them and the city of their refuge is blitzed “to hell and
back.” The sisters spend their formative years struggling against the
gratitude and resentment they feel for the mother and children who
have taken them in, and for the other annoying refugees who clutter
up the house. All the residents of this home are wrestling with the guilt
of their survival, each in his/her own way, with their fears for the
parents or children they have left behind, and the prayers they mutter
in the dark for their well-being. It is a coming-of-age story of the
refugee girls and their British counterparts; all battling their demons,
waiting for the war to end, learning to take action, to stand and be
counted—while always, always waiting to see who will survive and
come to get them.