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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Accursed Tower
    sub title: the fall of Acre and the end of the Crusades
  name:
    name part: Crowley, Roger
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The 1291 siege of Acre was the Alamo of the Christian Crusades, the final bloody battle for the Holy Land. After a desperate six weeks, the beleaguered citadel surrendered to the Mamluks, bringing an end to Christendom's two-hundred year adventure in the Middle East. In The Accursed Tower, Roger Crowley delivers a lively narrative of the lead-up to the siege and a vivid, blow-by-blow account of the climactic battle. Drawing on extant Arabic sources as well as untranslated Latin documents, he argues that Acre is notable for technical advances in military planning and siege warfare, and extraordinary for its individual heroism and savage slaughter. A gripping depiction of the crusader era told through its dramatic last moments, The Accursed Tower offers an essential new view on a crucial turning point in world history.
  table of contents: A brief timeline of the Crusades -- 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 -- A habitation for snakes -- The evidence for the fall of Acre.
  note: Roger Crowley.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-is---
  subject:
    geographic: Acre (Israel)
    topic: History
    temporal: Siege, 1291
  subject:
    topic: Crusades
    temporal: 13th-15th centuries
  classification: D171 .C66 2019
  classification: 956.94/032
  identifier: 9781541697348
  identifier: 1541697340
  identifier: 9781541699724 (ebook)
  identifier: 2019019102
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190423
    record change date: 20200117110405.0
    record identifier: in00004096617