The Voices of Masada

London England: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd. Hardback. First Edition. The Voices of Masada. Couple of small tears to edge of D/J. Price clipped to D/J. 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 intelligcena dn education superior to most woman, and another, an old woman'. David 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. All the illustrations and maps have been specially drawn for this book by the author. Illustrations. 237 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 1973.