Simon Sebag-Montefiore

Citations

• “To her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours.”

• “The European upper classes...could not decide if the Jews were a noble race of persecuted biblical heroes, every one of them a King David and a Maccabee, or a sinister conspiracy of mystically brilliant, hook-nosed hobbits with almost supernatural powers.”

• “For 1,000 years, Jerusalem was exclusively Jewish; for about 400 years, Christian; for 1,300 years, Islamic; and not one of the three faiths ever gained Jerusalem without the sword, the mangonel or the howitzer.”

• “War was simply a slaughterhouse on wheels, he thought. For most men, soldiering was tragedy expressed as a profession.”

• ‘The greatest privilege of childhood’, she said, ‘is to live safely in the present.’

Les livres de Simon Sebag-Montefiore dans l'ordre

Les livres de Simon Sebag-Montefiore dans l'ordre de parution, de King's Parade (1991) à World (2022).

1. 1King's ParadeKing's Parade1991
2. 2My Affair with StalinMy Affair with Stalin1997
3. 3PotemkinPotemkin2000
4. 4StalineStaline2003
5. 5Piggy Foxy and the Sword of RevolutionPiggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution2006
6. 6Speeches That Changed the WorldSpeeches That Changed the World2006
7. 7Le jeune StalineLe jeune Staline2007
8. 8History's MonstersHistory's Monsters2008
9. 9SašenkaSašenka2008
10. 10JerusalemJerusalem2011
11. 11The RomanovsThe Romanovs2012
12. 12Titans of HistoryTitans of History2012
13. 13SerafimaSerafima2013
14. 14Red Sky at NoonRed Sky at Noon2017
15. 15Moscow TrilogyMoscow Trilogy2018
16. 16Written in HistoryWritten in History2019
17. 17Voices of HistoryVoices of History2020
18. 18WorldWorld2022