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John Julius Norwich

Biography

John Julius Norwich

John Julius Norwich is the author of more than 20 books, including the New York Times bestseller ABSOLUTE MONARCHS. He began his career in the British foreign service, but resigned his diplomatic post to become a writer. He is a former chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund and the honorary chairman of the World Monuments Fund.

John Julius Norwich

Books by John Julius Norwich

Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History
by John Julius Norwich - History, Nonfiction

Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean, the stepping stone between Europe and Africa, the link between the Latin West and the Greek East. Its strategic location has tempted Roman emperors, French princes and Spanish kings. The subsequent struggles to conquer and keep it have played crucial roles in the rise and fall of the world’s most powerful dynasties. Yet Sicily has often been little more than a footnote in books about other empires. John Julius Norwich’s engrossing narrative is the first to knit together all of the colorful strands of Sicilian history into a single comprehensive study.