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A widely acclaimed biography from the bestselling author of The Romanovs: "One of the great love stories of history” (The Economist) between Catherine the Great and the wildly flamboyant and talented Prince Potemkin. "Captures the genius of two extraordinary Enlightenment figures—and of...

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. 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 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...

Thoroughly updated and revised for 2024, JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY is the history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City and the Holy Land, from King David to the wars and chaos of today. The history of Jerusalem is the story of the world: Jerusalem is the universal city, the...

How did one extraordinary prince create Saudi Arabia? Why were a million Armenians killed during WWI? How did an elderly cleric overthrow the Shah and become ruler of Iran? Why did the Arab Spring fail? Could Trump's peace deal lead to a new Middle East? THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE MAKING OF...

An essential guide to the making of the modern Middle East from 1900 to the present: a spellbinding history by the New York Times bestselling author of Jerusalem and The Romanovs Renowned historian Simon Sebag Montefiore wades into the ideological battles and geopolitical tensions of the Middle...

Winner of the Costa Biography Award What 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 student priest, romantic poet...

Monstros é uma investigação a respeito da perversidade na História, uma crônica fascinante da depravação humana, uma lição que abrange três milênios sobre o bem e o mal, na qual o historiador best-seller Simon Sebag Montefiore apresenta sua seleção dos homens e mulheres mais perversos que já existiram: Tiranos e Imperatrizes, Conquistadores e Canibais, Prostitutas e Megalomaníacos, Torturadores e Assassinos em Série, Sedutoras e Traidores De Átila, o Huno, a Adolf Hitler; de Lucrécia Bórgia a Ivã, o Terrível; de Josef Stalin a Saddam Hussein...

Comment Staline est-il devenu Staline? Issu d'un milieu populaire, le jeune Joseph Staline est un homme curieux, séducteur et déjà attiré par le pouvoir. Un temps poète, passé par le séminaire, il trouve finalement sa voie dans le banditisme, le terrorisme, et finalement l'action révolutionnaire, qui le mènera, des années plus tard, à la tête de l'URSS.