PublishedOrion, April 2012 |
ISBN9781780220253 |
FormatSoftcover, 768 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.8cm × 5cm |
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. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the 'centre of the world' and now the key to peace in the Middle East?
Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing 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, poets, conquerors and whores - who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime's study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse.
