Simon Sebag Montefiore

We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago.

Around 950,000 years ago, a family of five walked along the beach and left behind the oldest family footprints ever discovered. For award-winning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, these poignant, familiar fossils serve as an inspiration for a new kind of world history....

Comment Staline est-il devenu Staline? Issu d'un milieu populaire, le jeune Joseph Staline est un homme curieux, séducteur et déjà attiré par le pouvoir...

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface....

Voices of History celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the 21st century....

This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar....

In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research, brilliant synthesis and narrative élan, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the life and lives of Stalin’s court from the time of his acclamation as “leader” in 1929, five years after Lenin’s death, until his own death in 1953 at the age of 73....

From the ancient times, via crusades and world wars, up to the 21st century, this accessible history introduces listeners to the titans who changed the world....

Winter, 1916: in St Petersburg, Russia. An English governess is waiting for her young charge to be released from school. But so are the Tsar's secret police....

In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the 21st century. Some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious. Some are exquisite and poignant; others cruel and chilling....

Written in History: Letters that Changed the World celebrates the great letters of world history, and cultural and personal life. Bestselling, prizewinning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects letters that have changed the course of global events or touched a timeless emotion....

In this inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories, Simon Sebag Montefiore - one of our preeminent historians and a prizewinning writer - presents the giant characters who have changed the course of world history....

Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin was the love of her life and her co-ruler. Together they seized Ukraine and Crimea, territories that define the Russian sphere of influence to this day....

A jubilant Moscow is celebrating the Soviet Union's victory over Hitler when gunshots ring out though the city's crowded streets....

Escrito en la historia conmemora las mayores y más importantes cartas del panorama político, cultural, artístico, o de la vida privada de aquellos personajes célebres que influyeron en el devenir de nuestra historia....

Shylo has always been the weakest and quietest of all of his family; his siblings spend their days making fun of him for not being like the rest of them....