This book covers the last 3.500 yrs of Jerusalem‘s story. So there‘s A LOT OF names. And there‘s been a lot of wars. I guess that for a the longest time, war documents is the only documents that has been written and survived. Then as the story moves into the 1800s the story changes. Suddenly there‘s talk about writers like Gogel, Melville and Thackeray. And I particularly enjoyed that. Selma Lagerløf‘s Jerusalem is also mentioned.