Simon Sebag Mon­te­fiore’s best­selling books are pub­lished in over 40 lan­guages. A Fel­low of the Roy­al Soci­ety of the Lit­er­a­ture, he is the author of the crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed nov­el Sashen­ka. As a his­to­ri­an, his works include Jerusalem: The Biog­ra­phy; Stal­in: The Court of the Red Tsar; and Young Stal­in, which was award­ed the Los Ange­les Times Book Prize for Biog­ra­phy, the Cos­ta Biog­ra­phy Prize (UK), and Le Grand Prix de Biogra­phie Poli­tique (France).