If not the last word, this is a major intervention in an argument that will, and must, continue. There's no hope of lasting Middle East peace while the ghosts of 1948 still walk. - The Independent Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian. - John Pilger Ground breaking research into a well kept Israeli secret. A classic of historical scholarship on a taboo subject by one of Israel's foremost New Historians. - Ghada Karmi, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, England