The Accursed Tower : the fall of Acre and the end of the Crusades /
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, Rog...
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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.