The World: A Family History

‘I tried to think of a way to put the human back into a world history,’ says Simon Sebag Montefiore

Bhavya Dore

In two volumes, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the world’s great families. The historian speaks about combining the span of world history with the grit of human biography

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The World: A Family History

‘I tried to think of a way to put the human back into a world history,’ says Simon Sebag Montefiore

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