{"title":"Montefiore, Simon Sebag","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-world-a-family-history-of-humanity-simon-sebag-montefiore-hardcover","title":"The World: A Family History of Humanity -- Simon Sebag Montefiore, Hardcover","description":"\u003cb\u003eA magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families - From the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebest-selling author of\u003ci\u003e The Romanovs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSuccession\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eGame of Thrones\u003c\/i\u003e.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e - \"The author brings his cast of dynastic titans, rogues and psychopaths to life...An epic that both entertains and informs.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBest Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAround 950,000 years ago, a family of five walked along the beach and left behind the oldest family footprints ever discovered. For award-winning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, these poignant, familiar fossils serve as an inspiration for a new kind of world history, one that is genuinely global, spans all eras and all continents, and focuses on the family ties that connect every one of us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this epic, ever-surprising book, Montefiore chronicles the world's great dynasties across human history through palace intrigues, love affairs, and family lives, linking grand themes of war, migration, plague, religion, and technology to the people at the heart of the human drama. It features a cast of extraordinary diversity: in addition to rulers and conquerors, there are priests, charlatans, artists, scientists, tycoons, gangsters, lovers, husbands, wives, and children. There is Hongwu, the beggar who founded the Ming dynasty; Ewuare, the Leopard-King of Benin; Henry Christophe, King of Haiti; Kamehameha, the conqueror of Hawaii; Zenobia, the Arab empress who defied Rome; Lady Murasaki, the first female novelist; Sayyida al-Hurra, the Moroccan pirate-queen. Here too are moderns such as Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and Volodymyr Zelensky. Here are the Caesars, Medicis and Incas, Ottomans and Mughals, Bonapartes, Habsburgs and Zulus, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and Krupps, Churchills, Kennedys, Castros, Nehrus, Pahlavis and Kenyattas, Saudis, Kims and Assads. These powerful families represent the breadth of human endeavor, with bloody succession battles, treacherous conspiracies, and shocking megalomania alongside flourishing culture, moving romances, and enlightened benevolence. A dazzling achievement as spellbinding as fiction, \u003ci\u003eThe World\u003c\/i\u003e captures the whole human story in a single, masterful narrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon Sebag Montefiore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.37h x 6.93w x 2.44d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525659532\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2023 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/20\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE is a historian whose best-selling books have been published in forty-eight languages and won numerous awards including the Costa Biography Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His books include \u003ci\u003eCatherine the Great and Potemkin; Stalin; Young Stalin; Jerusalem; The Romanovs\u003c\/i\u003e; and the acclaimed Moscow Trilogy of novels, as well as \u003ci\u003eWritten in History \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eVoices of History\u003c\/i\u003e. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 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Written with bracing narrative verve, this feat of scholarly research has become a classic of modern history writing. Showing how Stalin's triumphs and crimes were the product of his fanatical Marxism and his gifted but flawed character, this is an intimate portrait of a man as complicated and human as he was brutal and chilling. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon Sebag Montefiore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400076789\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2005 pg. 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2017 pg. 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian of Russia and the Middle East. \u003ci\u003eCatherine the Great and Potemkin\u003c\/i\u003e was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. \u003ci\u003eStalin: The Court of the Red Tsar \u003c\/i\u003ewon the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. \u003ci\u003eYoung Stalin \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award, and le Grande Prix de la biographie politique. \u003ci\u003eJerusalem: The Biography \u003c\/i\u003ewas a worldwide best seller. Montefiore's books are published in more than forty languages. He is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eSashenka \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOne Night in Winter, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewww.simonsebagmontefiore.com","brand":"Montefiore, Simon Sebag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45782556737764,"sku":"9781400076789","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781400076789.jpg?v=1777326447"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/collections\/montefiore-simon-sebag.oembed","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}