THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2011 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of
Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of
Canada Limited, Toronoto.
Originally published in hardcover in a slightly different form in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd., an Hachette Livre UK Company.
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Some portions of this work were originally published in The Sunday Times Magazine, London.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Data
Sebag Montefiore, Simon, [date]
Jerusalem : the biography / by Simon Sebag Montefiore. — 1st U.S.
ed.
p. cm.
“This Is a Borzoi Book”—T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN: 978-0-307-59448-8
1. Jerusalem—History. I. Title.
DS109.9.S37 2011
956.94’420099—dc23 2011020827
Jacket image: Jerusalem in Her Grandeur, engraved by Charles Motta, after Henry Courtney Selous. Private collection. The Bridgeman Art Library/Getty Images.
Jacket design by Darren Haggar
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