Simon Sebag Montefiore

Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore details the lives of the 20 tsars who ruled Russia for over 300 years.

Simon Sebag Montefiore looks at how did the small, remote town of Jerusalem became the Holy City, the “center of the world,” and the key to peace in the Middle East. Jerusalem: The Biography tells the city’s story through the wars, love affairs, and revelations of the kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem.

Find out how Josef Stalin went from being a nondescript peasant boy to a ruthless, powerful Soviet leader. Simon Sebag Montefiore’s biography is Young Stalin.