Jerusalem: The City That Changed the World - An Illustrated History

Crack open the spine of this gloriously illustrated book to discover the city that has changed the course of history. Because Jerusalem''s story is the story of the world - and its most recognisable, powerful, flamboyant (and sometimes malevolent) characters: King Herod, the Emperors Nero and Caesar, Cleopatra, Nebuchadnezzar and Catherine the Great to Winston Churchill, David Ben-Gurion and Yasser Arafat. The history of Jerusalem is the ultimate epic story of battling kings, scheming empresses, lying politicians, love, faith, families and feuds. This beautifully illustrated retelling of historian Simon Sebag Montefiore''s seminal classic Jerusalem: A Biography is masterful: its stories reveal in a balanced and measured way the Middle East''s political, religious and ethnic rivalries - past and present - that readers will find easier to understand through the context of its 3,000-year history. In doing so, it becomes an essential guide to understanding today''s world.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Sebag Montefiore, Montefiore Simon Sebag, Rui Ricardo, Catherine Rowe, Simon Sebag Montefiore
• Assisted by: Jehane Boden Spiers (Illustration), Rui Ricardo (Illustration), Ricardo Rui (Illustration), Rowe Catherine (Illustration)
• Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 11
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.09.2025
• EAN: 9781526363091
• ISBN: 978-1-5263-6309-1
• No. of pages: 128
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Religion, philosophy, psychology; History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), JUVENILE NONFICTION / Religion / Biblical Studies, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Religion / Biblical Biography, Bibles & bible stories (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 9 years, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, For primary education, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Places / Middle East, For middle / preparatory school education