Jerusalem

  • Author Simon Sebag Montefiore
  • Narrator John Lee
  • Publisher Orion
  • Run Time 1 day, 1 hour and 29 minutes
  • Format Audio
  • Genre History.
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What to expect

A new, updated, revised edition of JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY, the wider history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City, from King David to today.

The story of Jerusalem is the story of the world.

Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilisations. 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? Drawing on new archives and a lifetime's study, Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem.

A classic of modern literature, this is not only the epic story of 3,000 years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and co-existence, but also a freshly-updated history of the entire Middle East, from King David to the twenty-first century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict and the wars of today. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem - the only city that exists twice - in heaven and on earth.

Critics Review

  • A fittingly vast and dazzling portrait of Jerusalem, utterly compelling from start to finish

    SUNDAY TIMES

  • Astoundingly ambitious and triumphantly epic history of the city

    DAILY TELEGRAPH

  • Outstanding, superbly objective, elegantly written and highly entertaining

    MAIL ON SUNDAY

  • Simon Sebag Montefiore’s history of Jerusalem is a labour of love and scholarship… a considerable achievement… he has a wonderful ear for the absurdities and adventurers of the past… totally gripping… vivid compelling, engaged, engrossing, knowledgeable

    INDEPENDENT

  • Compelling and thought-provoking…Working on an immense chronological and thematic canvas Sebag Montefiore does his subject more than justice. He narrates the terrible history of Jerusalem vividly and graphically… fascinating but ghastly.

    SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

  • It is a gripping read, told with verve and fluency, and explains why Jerusalem, like a living person, has touched the heart of so many cultures, East and West, for so long

    THE TIMES

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