英文原版 Jerusalem: The Biography

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Product Details
Paperback: 768 pages
Publisher: Phoenix; Mass Market Paperback edition (1 Mar 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1780220251
ISBN-13: 978-1780220253
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 5 cm

Book Description
Publication Date: 1 Mar 2012
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 civilizations. 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 coexistence.

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? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem's biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women - kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores - who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem.

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 many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice - in heaven and on earth.

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Review
If you want to understand the Middle East, read this. (GOOD BOOK GUIDE )

...astoundingly ambitious and triumphantly epic history of the city. (The Daily Telegraph )

Full of faith, power, slaughter and fanaticism; this is a unique chronicle, balanced and critical and wonderfully entertaining. (Chris Burgess The Examiner (Ireland) )

This is a city that has survived Hell, and Montefiore takes you to the heart of it. (James Cleary The Northern Echo )

Magnificent. (Stephen Lewis The York Press )

...never a dull moment (David Bradbury Daily Mail )

...as entertaining as it is elucidating. It's a history that is sharply paced as a novel and fairly brims over with sparkling writing. (Sunday Businesss Post )

...heterogenous, sprawling, erudite and touched by genius (Catholic Herald )
Book Description
The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and inhabited it. (20120224)

看过中文版，买原版看看。

质量不错，就是送的有点慢

好好好好好好好好好

是正版图书，但是我下单的时候要求给纸质发票，收获时候没有看到发票踪影呀！麻烦卖家补一下发票好吗。谢谢啦！

很好的书，英文原版更好看！

很厚实的书，英文的要慢慢啃了。纸张很上乘，大小适中。

正版图书，包装完好，非常满意。

英文历史书买了很多，看了不少，没有一本完全看完。忒细腻了。 还是喜欢框架类的，了解框架就行了， 细节就不要了。 但得承认，牛逼的书。真假不论。

质量确实好，设计相当精美