Adam LeBor
Aftershocks of the Risorgimento
Jerusalem: The Biography
By Simon Sebag Montefiore
Weidenfeld and Nicholson 638pp £25 order from our bookshop
Jerusalem is much more than a narrative account of the many incarnations of our holiest and most contested city. It is a dazzling historical encyclopaedia that brings alive the world of the three Abrahamic faiths – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – that have ruled the city almost from its birth millennia ago to the present day. Its splendid historical cast includes scheming kings and manipulative queens, bloodthirsty warlords and genocidal emperors, wild-eyed prophets and alluring harlots.
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