Accursed tower : the crusaders' last battle for the Holy Land /

"The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immediacy, Roger Crowley chronicles the tumultuous...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crowley, Roger, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2019]
Temas:
1200-1499
Crusades > 13th-15th centuries.
Croisades > Dernières, 13e, 14e, et 15e siècles.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Crusades
Acre (Israel) > History > Siege, 1291.
Acre (Israël) > Histoire > 1291 (Siège)
Israel > Acre
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: The Accursed Tower
  • The second kingdom of Jerusalem
  • Death on the Nile
  • Between the Mamluks and the Mongols
  • The lion of Egypt
  • A puppy yelping at a mastiff
  • War to the enemy
  • "My soul longed for Jihad"
  • The red tent
  • "Bolts of thunder, flashes of lightning"
  • Sorties
  • Negotiations
  • "See the wound!"
  • The terrible day
  • "Everything was lost"
  • Epilogue: A habitation for snakes.

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