Richard returned to Europe, Saladin to Damascus. in this absorbing account, "Holy War at its most virulent," overseen by two great leaders, the Kurdish sultan Salah ad-Din, or Saladin, and the English king Richard, forevermore known as Lionheart. Throughout the medieval era, the Holy Land was a fie
| Title | : | Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade |
| Author | : | James Reston Jr. |
| Rating | : | 4.71 (780 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385495617 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 384Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-2-13 |
| Language | : | English |
Richard returned to Europe, Saladin to Damascus. in this absorbing account, "Holy War at its most virulent," overseen by two great leaders, the Kurdish sultan Salah ad-Din, or Saladin, and the English king Richard, forevermore known as Lionheart. Throughout the medieval era, the Holy Land was a fiercely contested battlefield, fought over by huge Muslim and Christian armies, by zealots and assassins. Writing with a keen sense of historical detail and drama, Reston traces the complex path by which Saladin and Richard came to face each other on the field of battle.
--Gregory McNamee. The Third Crusade, as Reston ably shows, was complicated by fierce rivalries among the Christian leaders, by a chain of military disasters that led to the destruction of an invading German army and its emperor, and by the dedication of an opposing Islamic army that shared both a goal and a language. The Crusades, he observes, began "as a measure to redirect the energies of warring European barons from their bloody, local disputes into a 'noble' quest to reclaim the Holy Land from the 'infidel'." Of the five Crusades over 200 years, only the first was successful, to the ex
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There, Saladin's brilliant maneuvers and Richard's sudden failure of nerve turned the tide. Sweeping readers into a mesmerizing period of history,
Warriors of God is a provocative look at two towering leaders and the not always noble causes for which they fought.
. The epic story of the battle for the Holy Land and the two larger-than-life figures at its center.James Reston, Jr., the author of
Galileo: A Life (called "masterful" and "brilliant" by the
Washington Post) and the critically lauded
The Last Apocalypse, a stunningly original portrait of the Christian world at the turn of first millennium, now re-creates the collision of the Christian holy wars and the Muslim jihad at the end of the twelfth century. A dual biography of the legendary Richard the Lionheart and the Sultan Saladin, iconic hero of the Islamic world
, Warriors of God recounts the life of each man and reveals the passions of the times that brought them face-to-face in the final battle of the Third Crusade.Richard the Lionheart, commonly depicted as the romantic personification of chivalry, here emerges in his full complexity and contradictions as
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