A Modern History of the Kurds

This is THE book of Kurdish history. Well written and well developed. Truly a must read for those interested in the Middle East.

I highly do not recommend wasting your money by buying, and even worse, wasting your time reading it. There is a lot of information conveyed based on "assumption" where there are many articles written by many academics including archeologists, sociologists, etimologs in proving history of these noble people. And it says "extensively revised and updated to 2020". This is terrible. They could fix the bad information during the revising at last, however, failed in there as well.Some examples: 1. claims that Diyarbakir was a rich city because there were smuggling back then. By the end of Ottoman empire, there were no borders. So, how come smuggling can happen there.2. Claims/assumes that they are coming from Persians. Tons of researches findings artifacts prove that Kurds were the ones who appeared first and developed most of we have today in mesopotamia. Arabs or Europeans, or even lots of other appeared later.I can go on, but, not worthy more than that I believe.