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by Martin Gilbert (Author)
From one of the world's most revered historians, the first major history of contemporary Jerusalem
""Gilbert is a first-rate storyteller."" --The Wall Street Journal
""Fascinating and admirably readable . . . unmatched for sheer breadth of acutely observed historical detail."" --Christopher Walker, The Times (London)
""Most noteworthy for its richness of letters, journals and anecdotes . . . the major events of this century come alive in eyewitness accounts."" --The New York Times Book Review
""Extraordinarily vivid glimpses of Jerusalem life."" --Atlanta Journal Constitution
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From one of the world's most revered historians, the first major history of contemporary Jerusalem
"Gilbert is a first-rate storyteller." --The Wall Street Journal
"Fascinating and admirably readable . . . unmatched for sheer breadth of acutely observed historical detail." --Christopher Walker, The Times (London)
"Most noteworthy for its richness of letters, journals and anecdotes . . . the major events of this century come alive in eyewitness accounts." --The New York Times Book Review
"Extraordinarily vivid glimpses of Jerusalem life." --Atlanta Journal Constitution
Author Biography
SIR MARTIN GILBERT is one of the world's preeminent biographers and historians. In addition to his universally acclaimed biography of Churchill, he is the author of In Search of Churchill (Wiley); The First World War; The Second World War: A Complete History; Auschwitz and the Allies; and Holocaust: The History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War. A Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, he divides his time between London and Jerusalem.
