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.
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*
Entertaining and enlightening . . . Some [letters] are truly
revolutionary and visionary . . . Others are very personal . . .
but all are fascinating, as are the compiler's comments on each
letter, little gems of history in their own right
*DAILY MAIL, History Books of the Year*
WRITTEN IN HISTORY is a search through the millennia, the result an
astonishing array: all human life is here encapsulated, in just a
few paragraphs or even just a sentence; all are surprising, and
mostly unfamiliar...Everything here is a revelatory marvel, whether
a hideous rant from the Marquis de Sade (1783), or the impassioned
logic of religious tolerance from Babur to his son Hamayun (1529).
Truly the spectrum of human belief and behaviour is revealed in
this selection
*THE ARTS DESK*
What sets this book apart from others about great historical
correspondence is the author. The esteemed historian's selections,
written in settings as far-flung as Ancient Egypt, Renaissance
Italy and Stalin's Russia, go some way to illustrate how adaptable
the medium of letter writing can be, and his commentary reveals
just why they are still important today
*HISTORY REVEALED*
Lip-smackingly sexy ... Written in History is a cornucopia of
emotion. Not all the letters changed the world for everyone. But
they all changed the world for someone.
*IRISH EXAMINER*
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