Aleppo - The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City (Mansel Philip)(Paperback / softback)

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year "This book will stand as a eulogy for the city." - Anthony Satin, The Literary Review

Aleppo lies in ruins. Its streets are plunged in darkness; most of its population has fled, its memories ravaged. But this was once a vibrant world city, a trade and cultural hub at the end of the Silk Road famous for its food and music, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places were as ancient and diverse. In this heartbreaking and powerful history of one of the world's oldest, continuously-inhabited cities, author Philip Mansel chronicles the many lives of Aleppo, successively ruled by the Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French empires. In Part I, Mansel details the city's lives over the centuries, including her rise under the
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