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HardCover Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 688 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Jerusalem is the universal city the capital of two peoples the shrine of three Faiths; IT is the prize of Empires the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama. from the birth of Judaism. Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict. this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith. slaughter. fanaticism and coexistence. How did this small. remote town become the Holy City. the center of the world and now the key to peace in the Middle East In a gripping narrative. Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations. inging every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem's biography is told through the wars. love affairs and revelations of the men and women-kings. empresses. prophets. p...
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Dazzling ... a fittingly vast history of the city, utterly compelling from start to finish (SUNDAY TIMES)
A wonderfully evocative guide to the past and present of its [Jerusalem's] story-soaked stones, even-handed, high-spirited and far more enjoyably full of sex and scandal than pilgrims might expect. (Boyd Tonkin INDEPENDENT)
You fall in love with the city ... it's a wonderful book (President Bill Clinton)
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A wonderfully evocative guide to the past and present of its [Jerusalem's] story-soaked stones, even-handed, high-spirited and far more enjoyably full of sex and scandal than pilgrims might expect. (Boyd Tonkin INDEPENDENT)
You fall in love with the city ... it's a wonderful book (President Bill Clinton)
The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and inhabited it.
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0307266516
- ISBN 13 9780307266514
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