this is probably the first history book i have ever read, and so it took a while to get into, especially as my main knowledge of history only goes back to ww2. it might have helped that i decided to read most of this book in a week as i am going to be living with my parents for a month and i want to avoid talking about palestine with my horribly bigoted step dad, so any parts i struggled to understand i still got through. very enlightening and helped me understand various political and national factors involved in the colonisation of Palestine that so far i was unaware of. definitely a good overview of palestinian history since zionism came to influence it.