The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Routledge Historical Atlases)

Gilbert never dissapoints.Clear and concise.Great educational tool.Added to my Gilbert collection.Detailed maps and explanations.Highly recommend.

I was very surprised when I started reading this book to see how heavily it leans to one side in a very complex conflict. Martin Gilbert is an outstanding historian and Routledge a very well-respected quality publisher and I am at a loss to understand what happened in the publication of this book. Far from the neutral observations you'd expect in an Atlas, whatever the topic, it repeatedly uses very emotional language and cherry-pick facts to suit the story. I strongly recommend other books by Martin Gilbert, such as his Atlas of the Jewish people, but this one is a fail in an otherwise distinguished career.

One of the finest scholars of our age

The maps are used to push forward, without any citations, the Zionist historiography: Palestinians bad, Zionists good. Not much different from the cowboys and Indians story.

This is an important book in the Routledge Atlas series. It is not a book you can just sit down and read. It goes into great detail. It looks into oil supplies (pp 85,86), arms supplies (p 123.), refugees and the tortuous attempts to arrive at peace down toNovember 2011.

Recommended but there are other publications which delve into the reasons behind the conflict. If you are simply looking for a chronology, this is it.

The book my be brilliant but it is unsuitable for easy use on a Kindle. I purchased, returned within minutes and am about to buy a hard copy of the same. I must emphasise my comments simply related to the Kindle Editions, not the book itself. ( I must also add that the Amazon Customer Service team were brilliant in their dealing with me about this ).

Very detailed, with a surprising number of facts. An eye opener, especially for amateur historians.