JERUSALEM: The Biography, by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Knopf Doubleday, 688 pp.)
Award-winning biographer Simon Sebag Montefiore (“Young Stalin”) tells the story of Jerusalem through profiles of some of the key figures who have helped to shape the city over the centuries, including King David, Jesus, Muhammad, the Maccabees, Churchill, Cleopatra, Mark Twain, and Rasputin. (October)