SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 5th.* Date of Publication: 2011.* Publisher: Phoenix.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing a line drawing of the town in orange, brown and gold. French flaps with no bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear, no reading creases to spine, slight dish to spine. Seems lightly used. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. Some light paper colouration to page margins and edges. VG++.* Illustrations: Four x 8pp. blocks of colour & b/w photos within text.* Pages: 522 pp. text. cxvi pp. maps, notes, bibliography & index at rear.* Product Description:- 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 prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilisations. 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 3,000 years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and co-existence. 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 makes many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse.* This is a NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st./5th. with minimal age & reading wear reducing it to VG++.*

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Simon Sebag Montefiore read history at Cambridge University. His books have been published in more than thirty-five languages. Potemkin: Catherine the Great’s Imperial Partner was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and Marsh Biography prizes in Britain. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar was awarded the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. Young Stalin won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award (U.K.), le Grand Prix de la biographie politique (France) and the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Literature (Austria). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Montefiore lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children.

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9355
Title: Jerusalem: The Biography
Author: Montefiore, Simon Sebag
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - VG++/VG++/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn, 5th. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0753828790
ISBN 13: 9780753828793
Publisher: Phoenix
Place of Publication: London UK. 638
Date Published: 2011-10-26

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