"...a very significant encyclopedic work...the book represents an ‎ indispensable basic research tool...a dazzling achievement..." - ‎ Benny Morris, Ha'Aretz ‎ The culmination of nearly six years of research by more than thirty ‎ participants, this authoritative reference work describes in detail ‎ the more than 400 Palestinian villages that were destroyed or ‎ depopulated during the 1948 war. ‎ Going beyond the scope of previously published accounts, All That ‎ Remains has relied extensively on field research to pinpoint the ‎ precise location of village sites through former residents and ‎ guides. The body of the text is devoted to the villages themselves; ‎ each village entry comprises statistical data and several narrative ‎ sections. ‎ These last include a section on the village before 1948 ‎ summarizing its history from a wide variety of Arab and Western ‎ sources and synthesizing information about the villages ‎ topography, architecture, institutions, and economic activity. ‎ Village entries also include a section, based on Israeli as well as ‎ Arab accounts, focusing on the military operations that led to the ‎ conquest of the village. Finally, entries contain a description of the ‎ current status of the site, including post-1948 Israeli settlements ‎ established on confiscated village lands. Several hundred ‎ photographs, a number of informative maps, and five valuable ‎ appendices enhance the text. About the Author: ‎ Walid Khalidi is a distinguished historian and widely recognized ‎ authority on Palestine. He is a Senior Research Fellow at ‎ Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the author of ‎ numerous books and articles.‎