The Crusades: The Two Hundred Years War: The Clash Between the Cross and the Crescent in the Middle East 1096-1291This illustrative and comprehensive guide offers the history of the Crusades, both romanticized and real. Drawing on the latest scholarship, this book profiles this most turbulent time in world history and the people who were part of it. |
Contents
D | 12 |
TWO GOD WILLS IT | 22 |
THREE AT THE GATES OF DAMASCUS | 39 |
FOUR THE GREAT ADVERSARIES | 57 |
SEVEN | 59 |
FIVE STRIKING AT THE EMPIRE | 71 |
SIX ON THE BANKS OF THE NILE | 81 |
EIGHT | 101 |
NINE | 113 |
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