Simon Sebag Montefiore

Written in History

Letters That Changed the World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The author curates an outstanding selection of great letters from ancient times to the 21st century, touching on power, love, art, sex, faith, and war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 130mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 251g
• ISBN-13: 9781984898166
• ISBN-10: 1984898167
• Artikelnr.: 56038501

Autorenporträt

SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE is a historian of Russia and the Middle East. His most recent books include Titans of History The Giants Who Made Our World and The Romanovs: 1613-1918. Catherine the Great and Potemkin was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. Young Stalin won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award, and le Grande Prix de la biographie politique. Jerusalem: The Biography was a worldwide best seller. He lives in London.

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