'Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.' John Pilger

'Along with Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.' New Statesman

'A spellbinding account' Mahmoud Yazbak

'An excellent book ... It throws considerable light not just on the Husayni family but on the history and politics of the Palestinians since the eighteenth century.' --Avi Shlaim

'Along with Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.' --New Statesman

'A spellbinding account' --Mahmoud Yazbak

'An excellent book ... It throws considerable light not just on the Husayni family but on the history and politics of the Palestinians since the eighteenth century.' --Avi Shlaim

Ilan Pappe is a renowned Israeli historian. He is Professor of History at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter, Director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. He is the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, A History of Modern Palestine, The Modern Middle East, and with Noam Chomsky, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians. He writes for, among others, the Guardian and the London Review of Books. He lives in Exeter.

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