FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, SEPTEMBER 2012

Copyright © 2011 by Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Some portions of this work were originally published in The Sunday Times Magazine, London.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows: Sebag Montefiore, Simon.

Jerusalem : the biography / by Simon Sebag Montefiore. — 1st U.S. ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Jerusalem—History. I. Title.

DS109.9.S37 2011

956 .94’420099—dc23 2011020827

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Ebook ISBN 9780307594488

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