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Buy this book on-line KOSSOFF,DAVID**: : THE VOICES OF MASADA.[Author SIGNED copy.]**LONDON.VALENTINE,MITCHELL & CO.,lTD.,1973. ISBN 0853031444.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author warmly SIGNED+
dedicated,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.Warmly Signed+dedicated:'for Christine & Simon.
Shalom! David Kossoff' to foot of half-title page.Clean,glossy,laminated, author
b/w+red illustrated upper wrap with author's b/w portrait photograph to rear wrap,with negligible shelf-wear to edges -
no nicks or tears present - and minimal creasing to edges.Top edge minimally dust-soiled and lightly darkened, fore-edges generally clean and slightly brighter; contents bright, tight and pristine - no dog-ear reding creases to corners of pages.Publisher's original bright,clean, pristine pale tan cloth bds with bright, risp,stamped gilt seal to bottom right-hand corner of upper bd,with bright,crisp,
stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate b/w scenic illustrated cream eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn, vii-ixpp+4-236pp [paginated] includes SIGNED half-title,title-page,contents list,Books I+II (comprising 19 chapters),
note on illustrations,prologue,b/w map,and
b/w line illustrated chapter head-pieces (similar to gilt seal on front bd).
The mass-suicide of the defenders of the mountain-stronghold of Masada in AD 73 is one of the great stories of courage - how nearly a thousand Jewish men,women and children chose to die rather than be enslaved by the Romans.The historian Josephus tells us that five little children and two women were the sole survivors: 'A woman related to Eleazar,the
leader of the Zealots,and in intelligence and education superior to most women,and another,an old woman.'
Kossoff,whose 'imaginative history' has made his Bible story interpretations into huge bestsellers,has taken these two women
and shown us,through their own eyes,and in
the stories of the people they search out,
the whole story.Not just the last stand,
but the entire seven years of the Jewish Revolt against the Romans.We meet the guerilla fighters,the collaborators,the Roman generals,the traitors,the heroes and
heroines.We meet Vespasian,who broke off his attack upon Jerusalem to be made Emperor after Nero.
We meet Titus,son of Vespasian,and Bernice,mistress to them both.We see Jerusalem besieged and conquered,and the beautiful Temple of Herod destroyed.All the illustrations and maps have been specially drawn for this book by the author.The book was begun in Jerusalem in 1970 and finished over a year later in the
No.4 dressing room at the London Palladium,where Kossoff was playing in pantomime as Cinderella's father.
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