Isabel De Madariaga Ivan IV "the Terrible" (1533-1584), is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy...

Jack and Rochelle SutinDescribes the meeting of two escaped prisoners from Nazi labor camps and the dangerous circumstances under which they survived and resisted the war, which included raids on...

Raphael Patai In 1839, Muslims attacked the Jews of Meshhed, murdering 36 of them, and forcing the conversion of the rest. While some managed to escape across the Afghan border,...

Siegfried Jagendorf"Let us take advantage of this historic moment and cleanse the soil of Romania ..." These words began the Romanian Holocaust in 1941. Deported Jews were expected to perish....

Aman Nath The Last Destination brings alive nine centuries, pulling history out of the realm of text books and making it a wondrous narrative of war and bravery; migration and...

Eric H Cline " Jerusalem Besieged is a fascinating account of how and why a baffling array of peoples, ideologies, and religions have fought for some four thousand years over...

Yehoshua Ben-Arieh January 1, 1986 by Palgrave Macmillan

Yehoshua Ben-Arieh January 1, 1984 by Yad Izhak Ben Zvi/St. Martin's

Ruth Kark This book focuses on the Muslim, Christian and Jewish neighborhoods outside the walls of old Jerusalem during the final decades of Ottoman rule in Palestine. Prof. Kark reviews...

Teddy Kollek and Moshe Pearlman Jerusalem, with a recorded history of some 4,000 years, has been more familiar to more people for a longer period than any other place on...

Martin Gilbert  This unique Atlas traces the history of Jerusalem from biblical times to the present day. Each map is illustrated by a facing page of prints or photographs, to...

Simon Sebag Montefiore   Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day...