Jerusalem
The Biography
FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED FOR 2024
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Spectacular. [Montefiore] really tells you what the life of the city has been like and why it means so much. You fall in love with the city. It’s a treasure. It’s a wonderful book." —Bill Clinton
"Impossible to put down. . . . Vastly enjoyable." —The New York Times Book Review
The history of Jerusalem is the story of the world: Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths. The Holy City and Holy Land are the battlefields for today’s multifaceted conflicts and, for believers, the setting for Judgment Day and the Apocalypse. How did…
$31.00
September 18, 2012
SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE is a historian of Russia and the Middle East whose books are published in more than forty languages. Catherine the Great and Potemkin was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards, and Young Stalin won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award, and le Grande Prix de la biographie politique. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in London.
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The World
Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Romanovs
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Catherine the Great & Potemkin
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Jerusalem
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Stalin
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Recognizing the Stranger
Isabella Hammad
Spies of No Country
Matti Friedman
All We Leave Behind
Carol Off
A Disappearance in Damascus
Deborah Campbell
Fractured Lands
Scott Anderson
Pumpkinflowers
Matti Friedman
Don't Panic
Gwynne Dyer
Song of the Caged Bird
Marcello Di Cintio
Lawrence in Arabia
Scott Anderson
The Explorers
Martin Dugard
The Moral Lives of Israelis
David Berlin
The Balfour Declaration
Jonathan Schneer
The Anatomy of Israel's Survival
Hirsh Goodman
I Shall Not Hate
Izzeldin Abuelaish