Jerusalem: The Biography

Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore This book condenses a library of material covering over 3,000 years into a bit over 500 pages. The acknowledgements pages show that the author had access to the finest academic scholars as sources and reviewers. His personal family history gave Montefiore unique access to members of centuries-long leading Arab families of the city as sources for many stories available nowhere else in English. That family background also gave him access to surviving early leaders of Israel, and royal families of England and Jordan with ancestors who are part of the story.

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