Simon Sebag Montefiore
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. How did this small, remote town become...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 744 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed author of Young Stalin and Jerusalem gives readers an accessible, lively account--based in part on new archival material--of the extraordinary men and women who ruled Russia for three centuries."--NoveList.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xl, 1,304 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of The Romanovs-a magisterial history of humanity viewed through the lens of its most powerful dynasties In this sprawling and eye-opening book, best-selling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the world's great dynasties across human history through engrossing tales of palace intrigue, glorious battle, and the real lives of people who held unfathomable power. He trains his eye on founders of humble origin, like...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
ix, 397 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode across the grasslands towards the horizon on fire . . . Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. He enrolls in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a suicide mission behind enemy lines―but...
5) Young Stalin
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 460 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar--the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil: a merciless psychopath who was, as well, a consummate politician, the dynamic world statesman who helped create and industrialize the USSR, outplayed Churchill and Roosevelt, and defeated Hitler? Historian Montefiore tells the story of a charismatic, turbulent boy born into poverty,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xviii, 622 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying, and inspiring characters that everyone should know. The giant characters of history-- from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare to Einstein, Henry VIII to Pol Pot, Shaka to George Washington, Jesus Christ to Genghis Khan-- lived lives of astonishing drama and adventure, debauchery and slaughter, but they also formed our world and will shape our future. In this eclectic and surprising...
Author
Series
Royal Rabbits of London volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When shy, quiet Shylo overhears the plan of a band of ratzis to embarrass the Queen, he must travel to Buckingham Palace and convince the Royal Rabbits of London to stop them.
Author
Series
Royal Rabbits of London volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
203 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Little Shylo Tawny-Tail is proud to call himself one of the Royal Rabbits of London, a secret order who live under Buckingham Palace and fight evil across the world. But high up in London's famous skyscraper, the Shard, the horrible ratzis are plotting to cause chaos during a visit from the President of the United States. And when the Grand Burrow is attacked and Shylo is kidnapped, it looks as though they might just manage it! Can Shylo escape in...
Author
Series
Royal Rabbits of London volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
'Packed with fun, fantasy and the sort of adventure guaranteed to have sticky little fingers hungrily turning the pages' The Mail on Sunday 'The Royal Rabbits is sweet, funny and beautifully illustrated' The Times Little Shylo Tawny-Tail and the Royal Rabbits of London are back! The adventure continues in this charming series from bestselling authors Santa Montefiore and Simon Sebag Montefiore and illustrator Kate Hindley, that proves even the smallest...
Author
Series
Royal rabbits of London volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
213 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
'Packed with fun, fantasy and the sort of adventure guaranteed to have sticky little fingers hungrily turning the pages' The Mail on Sunday 'The Royal Rabbits of London is sweet, funny and beautifully illustrated' The Times The adventure continues for Shylo and his Royal Rabbit friends in this charming series from bestselling authors Santa Montefiore and Simon Sebag Montefiore and illustrator Kate Hindley, which shows that even the smallest rabbit...
