The Accursed Tower : the fall of Acre and the end of the Crusades / Roger Crowley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crowley, Roger, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acre (Israel)--History--Siege, 1291.

Acre (Israel).

Crusades--13th-15th centuries.

Crusades.

Israel--Acre.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Other Title:

Fall of Acre and the end of the Crusades

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 2019.

Summary:

"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." --Amazon.com.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index.

ISBN:

9781541697348

1541697340

OCLC:

1085583827