I'm translating this book to arabic and i hope that it get published, the things i didn't like about the book is it doesn't includes any references but i passed this point as i started reading soon, the numbers and measurements didn't bother me as anyway i don't bother myself with them very much and i don't try to see how much then worth now i just try to catch the significance of the number that the author tries to point to, the author has very racist and narcist comments (but i think that was normal back then), sometimes i think the British people back then believed in a way the hero complex that the great Brittan is coming to save all you ignorant peasants from the darkness of ignorance, as a writer sometimes i find problems in the sentence composition but that's all the flaws. on the other hand the book is really good and points directly to the core of problem without any shame (which some Egyptians do when they try to address a problem), it's a new perspective which isn't completely true not completely false but it integrates what we as Egyptians get teached at school about this era, the author is a great politician also very smart and sharp at some points, a recommended book surely for whom interested in history of muhammed ali and his descendants era. and i hope my translation get published for such a good book to be available for us too.