The Voice of Masada

Lovely copy of this 1st edition, 1st printing. Signed without dedication by the author. Book has slight sellotape remains to end papers otherwise is mint with no other marks or inscriptions. Dust jacket is mint not price clipped and in a clear removable protective sleeve. 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'. 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. …