The author of this book is Charles D. Smith, a very renowned author. This book provide the documentation of all land occupied by Israel before and after different wars and also shows how the land dimensions of Palestine has been changed with the passage of time.
This book comprises of 12 chapters and first two chapters tell the historical background of Palestine since 15th century to 19th century.
These two first chapters tells the demography and administration of this land under Roman and Byzantine empires and then under Ottoman Empire.
It also describes the origin of Zionism in 1800 and communal tension during European invasion.
The next two chapters, 3 and 4 describes the events of two great wars and how this land manipulated and changed within those two great wars, the role of Britain in the division of Palestine land between Arabs and Israel and how Hitler genocide the Jews in Germany and how these all Jews gathered in Palestine.
Chapter 5 also explains the events of World War 2 and the creation of the state of Israel.
Chapter 6, 7 and 8 highlight the early conflict among Arab world and Israel and it also shed light on the Baltimore conference and its consequences, Jewish terrorism, Palestinian Arab leadership and the question of Arab unity.
It also tells how cold war and six day war and the peace settlement changed the dynamics of this conflict.
Chapter 9 shed light on the events of Camp David Accords, US diplomacy, the invasion on West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Chapter 10 explains the peace gambit, the intifada, the PLO and the Persian gulf crisis and the Madrid Talks. The second last chapter describes the negotiation and the agreements among Palestine and Israel and the last chapter draws a line between the reality and the image of this whole issue and conflict and how the whole scenario has been changes from first Camp David Accord to till date.
