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The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and inhabited it.

About the Author

Simon Sebag Montefiore was born in 1965 and read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore and their two children.

Reviews

Dazzling...utterly compelling from start to finish. - Sunday TimesAstoundingly ambitious and triumphantly epic history... His achievement, in fashioning a fluent narrative out of such daunting material can hardly be praised enough. - Daily TelegraphOutstanding, superbly objective, elegantly written and highly entertaining. - Mail on SundayMontefiore has a great novelist's eye for detail, a great journalist's nose for human frailty, and a great historian's touch...judicious, nuanced, balanced and sensitive...when a history is written this way one can never have too much. - The TimesMasterly, vastly entertaining and timely...a compelling narrative and an important book. - Evening Standard

Dazzling...utterly compelling from start to finish. - Sunday TimesAstoundingly ambitious and triumphantly epic history... His achievement, in fashioning a fluent narrative out of such daunting material can hardly be praised enough. - Daily TelegraphOutstanding, superbly objective, elegantly written and highly entertaining. - Mail on SundayMontefiore has a great novelist's eye for detail, a great journalist's nose for human frailty, and a great historian's touch...judicious, nuanced, balanced and sensitive...when a history is written this way one can never have too much. - The TimesMasterly, vastly entertaining and timely...a compelling narrative and an important book. - Evening Standard