Jerusalem: The Biography -- Simon Sebag Montefiore, Paperback
"This is an essential book for those who wish to understand a city that remains a nexus of world affairs." --Booklist (starred)
Jerusalem is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
A New York Times Notable Book
Jewish Book Council Book of the Year
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/18/2012
Pages: 784
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.02lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.39w x 1.44d
ISBN: 9780307280503
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/21/2012 pg. 28
About the Author
SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE is a historian of Russia and the Middle East. Catherine the Great and Potemkin was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. Young Stalin won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award, and le Grande Prix de la biographie politique. Jerusalem: The Biography was a worldwide best seller. Montefiore's books are published in more than forty languages. He is the author of the novels Sashenka and One Night in Winter, which won the Paddy Power Political Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2014. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Montefiore graduated from Cambridge University, where he received his PhD. He lives in London.
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