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“... Edward Keith-Roach OBE and Sir Arthur Wauchope, had much the same experience as Queen Michal. Simon SebagMontefiore in his biography of the city rather wistfully describes their rule as a golden age in Jerusalem’s history, when decorous gatherings of religious leaders from all faiths might pose for a group photo ...”

“... was particularly prominent in Robert Service’s biography of 2004. The first volume of Simon SebagMontefiore’s biography, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2004), dealing with his life and milieu in power, granted him a certain charisma and even had a chapter headed ‘The Charmer’. Still, it was not ...”

“... the places they had seen.Dalrymple calls all this the ‘Indosphere’, attributing the coinage to Simon SebagMontefiore (elsewhere it is attributed to Professor James Matisoff, a celebrated coiner of neologisms). But however we wish to describe it, the phenomenon is achieved, if not quite without firing a shot, at ...”

“... from poetry anthologies to studies of empire to the recent ‘family history of humanity’ by Simon SebagMontefiore. These works tend to be rife with errors about her. With the appearance of Sophus Helle’s Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author, we finally have a good English ...”