Speaking with British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, let alone trying to make a serious dent in his vast written output by some sustained reading before our meeting, is a daunting task. It is clear ...

With the likely killing of Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin reasserted his power, but Russian history offers lessons on state violence and control Vladimir Putin knows all too well the history of how tsars ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore's book "The World" investigates the history of humanity through families - the Caesars and Borgias, the Kims and Tudors, Roosevelts and the House of Saud. The book spans a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The World: A Family History is being developed as a TV project by The History Channel. If greenlit, the series, which is being developed as a ...

Yet, in firing the imagination, as Montefiore puts it, the city "has become the essential place on earth for the communication of God and man." William Shakespeare wrote of leaving "this troublous ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In 2019 noted historian Simon Sebag Montefiore embarked on the most ambitious project of his career.

Simon Sebag Montefiore’s epic survey of Jerusalem’s sanguinary history does not inspire confidence in the civilizing qualities of religion. The pile of corpses accumulated over millenniums from the ...

My office is my true sanctuary. It used to be a sunroom and I’m surrounded by trees. My wife Santa – we’re pictured here at our wedding in 1998 at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in London – is also a ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Simon Sebag Montefiore is an Author with six videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2004 Booknotes. Most appearances with Brian Lamb (3). Most common ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore’s epic survey of Jerusalem’s sanguinary history does not inspire confidence in the civilizing qualities of religion. The pile of corpses accumulated over millenniums from the ...

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