Book review: Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore. Reviewed by Doris Mousdale
"... An incredibly readable story of the city," says reviewer Doris Mousale of Arcadia Bookstore.
"... Montefiore takes the history of the old city from its beginnings as a fortified village through every conquest or occupation -- Canaanite, Israelite, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Macedonian, Seleucid, Roman, Byzantine, Ummayad, Abassid, Fatimid, Seljuk, Crusader, Saracen, Tatar, Mamluk, Ottoman, British, Jordanian and finally Israeli. Rival places of worship were destroyed and new ones constructed with the stones of earlier buildings, thus making Jerusalem the most complicated archaeological site in the world. Populations were slaughtered or sold into slavery, then later replaced by new waves of immigration. Montefiore's book, packed with fascinating and often grisly detail, is a gripping account of war, betrayal, looting, rape, massacre, sadistic torture, fanaticism, feuds, persecution, corruption, hypocrisy and spirituality." -- Guardian UK. Full review at http://bit.ly/eHlqqK
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Video book review by Doris Mousdale, Arcadia Bookshop, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand
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