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.

Literary Review

Mar 2011

Categories

Adam LeBor

The Decline and Fall of a Friendship

A Nice Little Earner

Blood Lines

Not All it Seems

The Swedish Schindler

Seeds of Discord

The Dark Side

Lord of the Fortunate Conjunction

Hunting the Stern Group

The Other Naqba

Divided City

Ottoman Atrocity

Black Vs White

Touching the Void

Change by the Sea

Atrocity in Europe

Drunk Again, Khayyam?

The Ottoman Question

1967 & All That

The Battle for Budapest

A Gigantic ‘Balagan’

Report from Sarajevo

If These Pages Could Talk

What a State to Be In