Long Interview: Simon Sebag Montefiore

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: In this age of email and instant messaging, the art and, indeed, craft of letter-writing is arguably a fading skill. The writer Simon Sebag-Montefiore has compiled some remarkable epistles that capture the art at its peak, reflecting not only great matters of state, but some of the most intimate of affairs. His book is called Written in History: Letters that changed the World.