The Hundred Years' War on Palestine (2020)

A major Palestinian history for readers who have mostly met the story from the Israeli side. Rashid Khalidi, a leading American historian of the Middle East from a Jerusalem family, frames the century from the 1917 Balfour Declaration onward as a colonial campaign against an indigenous people, and his subtitle says so plainly. It opens in 1899 with a letter from his great-great-uncle Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, then mayor of Jerusalem, warning Theodor Herzl that the country already had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their displacement. From there it moves through 1948, Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and the peace process. It is an argument, not a neutral survey, and it pairs naturally with Morris, Shapira or Shavit.