Simon Sebag Montefiore

Written in History

Letters that Changed the World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of the greatest letters in history, charting world-shaping events and revealing the unique personalities of some of history's most famous figures

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion Publishing Group / W&N
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 661746
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 269g
• ISBN-13: 9781474609197
• ISBN-10: 1474609198
• Artikelnr.: 55199715

Autorenporträt

Simon Sebag Montefiore is the internationally bestselling author of prize-winning books that have been published in forty-eight languages. CATHERINE THE GREAT & POTEMKIN was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR won History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards; YOUNG STALIN won the Costa Biography Award, the LA Times Book Prize for Biography, the Kreisky Prize and the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique; JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY won the JBC Book of the Year Prize and the Wenjin Book Prize in China; THE ROMANOVS: 1613-1918 won the Lupicaia del Terriccio Book Prize. He is the author of the Moscow Trilogy of novels: SASHENKA, RED SKY AT NOON and ONE NIGHT IN WINTER, which won the Political Fiction Book of the Year Award. He is also the author of WRITTEN IN HISTORY: LETTERS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD and VOICES OF HISTORY: SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD.

Rezensionen

Spicy, horrifying, passionate, shocking...and very moving. Fascinating! If you loved Ernst Gombrich's A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE WORLD and are in the mood for another global history from a different angle, this collection of historically significant letters through the ages compiled by Simon Sebag Montefiore might well hit the spot...he has distilled a few millennia of world history into 240 extremely un-boring pages THE TIMES