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"...retells in a brilliant, straightforward narrative of the 200 years in which the warriors of Christian Europe attempted to recover the Holy Land from Islam. Describing the great conflict from the point of view of the western Crusaders, the author tells the story of the Crusades from Pope Urban II's great exhortation to Christendom in 1095 to the fall of Acre in 1291...emphasizing the strategy & tactics employed his account of the Holy War provides not only an introduction to, but an authentic & exciting narrative of, a major portion of world history."
"...retells in a brilliant, straightforward narrative of the 200 years in which the warriors of Christian Europe attempted to recover the Holy Land from Islam. Describing the great conflict from the point of view of the western Crusaders, the author tells the story of the Crusades from Pope Urban II's great exhortation to Christendom in 1095 to the fall of Acre in 1291...emphasizing the strategy & tactics employed his account of the Holy War provides not only an introduction to, but an authentic & exciting narrative of, a major portion of world history."
Alfred Duggan
"There have been few historical imaginations better informed or more gifted than Alfred Duggan’s" (The New Criterion).Historian, archaeologist and novelist Alfred Leo Duggan wrote historical...
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