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Jerusalem may be the city, the administrative centre of two individuals, the shrine of three faiths; it's the reward of powers, the website of Judgement Day and the battleground of today’s conflict of cultures. From King David to Barack Obama, from the delivery of Judaism, Christianity and Islam for the Israel-Palestine struggle, this is actually the legendary history of three-thousand years of slaughter, religion, fanaticism and coexistence.   How did this tiny, rural community get to be the Holy City, the today of the world” and “center the important thing to peace in the centre East? In a gripping story, Simon Sebag Montefiore shows this ever changing area in its many incarnations, getting every epoch and personality blazingly alive.