Siege is about a people whose way of life resulted in the Free State of Israel almost 1948 years later after the time this book refers too. The copyright is in a country with a free press, and the copyright is modern, with the sources for the inside of the book mainly genealogy files and encyclopedia online work. The intent is to show the relationships of the characters, and so the making of the individuals, either with a standard family type or a being that would need to be raised in an orphanage.
