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SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE is a historian of Russia and the Middle East. Catherine the Great and Potemkin was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. Young Stalin won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award, and le Grande Prix de la biographie politique. Jerusalem: The Biography was a worldwide best seller. Montefiore’s books are published in more than forty languages. He is the author of the novels Sashenka and One Night in Winter, which won the Paddy Power Political Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2014. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Montefiore graduated from Cambridge University, where he received his PhD. He lives in London.
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List of Illustrations | p. xiii |
Lists of Family Trees and Maps | p. xix |
Preface | p. xxi |
Notes on Names, Transliterations and Titles | p. xxxi |
Prologue | p. 3 |
Judaism | |
The World of David | p. 17 |
The Rise of David | p. 23 |
The Kingdom and the Temple | p. 26 |
The Kings of Judah | p. 35 |
The Whore of Babylon | p. 45 |
The Persians | p. 52 |
The Macedonians | p. 58 |
The Maccabees | p. 70 |
The Romans Arrive | p. 76 |
The Herods | p. 83 |
Jesus Christ | p. 100 |
The Last of the Herods | p. 116 |
Jewish Wars: The Death of Jerusalem | p. 128 |
Paganism | |
Aelia Capitolina | p. 135 |
Christianity | |
The Apogee of Byzantium | p. 151 |
Sunset of the Byzantines: Persian Invasion | p. 166 |
Islam | |
The Arab Conquest | p. 177 |
The Umayyads: The Temple Restored | p. 187 |
The Abbasids: Distant Masters | p. 197 |
The Fatimids: Tolerance and Lunacy | p. 202 |
Crusade | |
The Slaughter | p. 217 |
The Rise of Outremer | p. 226 |
The Golden Age of Outremer | p. 231 |
Stalemate | p. 243 |
The Leper-King | p. 252 |
Saladin | p. 258 |
The Third Crusade: Saladin and Richard | p. 268 |
The Saladin Dynasty | p. 274 |
Mamluk | |
Slave to Sultan | p. 287 |
Decline of the Mamluks | p. 295 |
Ottoman | |
The Magnificence of Suleiman | p. 303 |
Mystics and Messiahs | p. 306 |
The Families | p. 320 |
Empire | |
Napoleon in the Holy Land | p. 329 |
The New Romantics: Chateaubriand and Disraeli | p. 334 |
The Albanian Conquest | p. 342 |
The Evangelists | p. 347 |
The New City | p. 366 |
The New Religion | p. 370 |
Arab City, Imperial City | p. 376 |
Russians | p. 384 |
Zionism | |
The Kaiser | p. 391 |
The Oud-Player of Jerusalem | p. 400 |
World War | p. 412 |
Arab Revolt, Balfour Declaration | p. 420 |
The Christmas Present | p. 435 |
The Victors and the Spoils | p. 447 |
The British Mandate | p. 455 |
The Arab Revolt | p. 468 |
The Dirty War | p. 481 |
Jewish Independence, Arab Catastrophe | p. 496 |
Divided | p. 504 |
Six Days | p. 511 |
Epilogue | p. 521 |
Family Trees | p. 545 |
Maps | p. 553 |
Acknowledgements | p. 565 |
Notes | p. 569 |
Bibliography | p. 609 |
Index | p. 629 |
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