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The World

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Written in History

Simon Sebag Montefiore

INCLUDES NEW MATERIALWRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some are noble and...

Titans of History

Simon Sebag Montefiore

NEW EDITION - FEATURING UPDATED INTRODUCTION ANDNEW CHAPTERS The giant characters of history - from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare to Einstein, Henry VIII to Hitler, Catherine the Great to Margaret Thatcher, Jesus Christ to Genghis Khan ­- lived lives of...

The Romanovs

Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and...

Jerusalem

Simon Sebag Montefiore

The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and inhabited it.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...

Catherine the Great and Potemkin

Simon Sebag Montefiore

'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' EconomistIt was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it...

Stalin

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the YearLonglisted for the Samuel Johnson PrizeThis thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist...

Young Stalin

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Winner of the Costa Biography AwardWhat makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a ...

Le Monde

Simon Sebag Montefiore

« En se concentrant sur la famille, Montefiore offre une intimité qui fait généralement défaut aux histoires globales. Il a de la personnalité et une âme. C'est aussi outrageusement drôle. » The Times« L'idée de tisser le passé en utilisant l'unité la plus durable et la...

Le jeune Staline

Simon Sebag Montefiore , Jean-François Sené

"Le récit vivant et maîtrisé de la jeunesse prérévolutionnaire et mafieuse de Staline, appuyé sur des documents d’archives inédits" The Guardian. Comment Staline est-il devenu Staline ? Issu d’un milieu populaire, le jeune Joseph Staline est un homme curieux,...