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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Reston, James, 1941- Warriors of God. New York : Doubleday, 2001 (OCoLC)606540593 |
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| Named Person: | Richard, King of England; Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria; König I ) Richard (England; Sultan) Saladin (Aijubidenreich |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James Reston |
| ISBN: | 0385495617 9780385495615 |
| OCLC Number: | 45283102 |
| Description: | xx, 364 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | James Reston, Jr. |
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Abstract:
"James Reston, Jr., 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 contradiction as Reston examines the dark side of Richard's role as the leader of the blood-soaked Crusade and breaks new ground by openly discussing Richard's homosexuality. Reston's compelling portrait of Saladin brings to life the wise, highly cultured leader who realized an enduring Arab dream by uniting Egypt and Syria and whose conquest of Jerusalem not only sparked the Third Crusade but ignited the first jihad and turned Saladin into a hero of epic proportions. In riveting descriptions, Reston captures the fascinating clash of the two armies as they battled their way to the outskirts of Jerusalem. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Richard -- I, -- King of England, -- 1157-1199 -- Military leadership.
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- Crusades -- Third, 1189-1192.
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