Book by Walid Khalidi documents more than 400 Palestinian villages that were depopulated and destroyed by Israeli forces during the 1948 war, providing village-by-village historical accounts, demographic data, and photographic evidence. Serves as both historical record and memorial to communities erased during the Nakba, preserving the names, locations, and histories of villages subsequently demolished or repopulated by Israeli settlers. An indispensable reference and central document of Palestinian collective memory and the right of return. An indispensable reference for historians, Palestinian refugees, and researchers documenting the Nakba, particularly those working on the right of return, village destruction, and Palestinian collective memory of 1948.
