Joseph Millis is an award-winning journalist. He is the former editor of the Jewish Chronicle and a founder and Editor-in-Chief of its website. He has worked at Standpoint Magazine, the Daily Express, the Daily Star, the Guardian and the Daily Mail. He is often appears on CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, Sky News and Channel 4, to comment on Middle East events, and was the first non-Israeli, non-American journalist to interview the former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, following his 1999 election victory.

Introduction; The Origins of Jerusalem; The City of David; King Solomon's Temple; The Assyrians and the Babylonians; From Cryus to Alexander; Egyptian and Roman Rule; Jesus of Nazareth; The Western Wall; Queen Helena and the Byzantines; The Church of the Holy Sepulchre; The Arrival of Islam; The Dome of the Rock; The Al-Aqsa Mosque; The Crusades; Mameluks, Marco Polo and the Black Death; The Tower of David; Rebirth and Restablishment; Outside the City Walls; Zion and the Dawn of a New Era; The First World War; The British Mandate; The Second World War; Capital City; New Institutions; The Six Day War; The Cultural Life of the City.