內容簡介
內容簡介 甫出版就足以歸入經典行列!一部濃縮了一座神聖城市四千年歷史的傑作,美國前總統柯林頓公開盛讚! 耶路撒冷是一個世界的城市,她是兩個民族共有的首都、三個信仰的聖地、帝國爭奪戰的獎品、審判之日的舞台,同時也是當代文明衝突的戰場。從大衛王時期到21世紀,從猶太教、基督教、伊斯蘭教到以巴衝突,這座城市刻劃了三千年來信仰、殺戮、狂熱主義以及共存議題的歷史,宛如一場浩大澎湃的史詩。本書作者Simon Sebag Montefiore畢業於劍橋大學歷史學系,曾出版多本暢銷書,其著作更在全球被翻譯成超過35種語言出版。他在這部精心撰寫的著作中,細數了歷史上創造並摧毀這座城市的人物,包括希律王、埃及豔后、古羅馬皇帝尼祿、邱吉爾、杜魯門等人,他更於書中融入家庭歷史,以及自己畢生對於耶路撒冷的研究,讓這座神聖城市的歷史活靈活現開展於讀者眼前。
作者介紹
作者介紹 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.www.simonsebagmontefiore.com