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Combines material previously published as Campaign 19: Hattin 1187, Warrior 10: Saracen Faris 1050-1250, Warrior 91: Knight Templar 1120-1312, with new images, and a new introduction and conclusion.This book tells the story of the momentous campaign that led to the Muslim capture of Jerusalem in 1187, following the disastrous Crusader defeat at Hattin, where Saladin’s troops destroyed the Christian army. These events resulted in the collapse of the kingdom of Jerusalem and sparked off the Third Crusade under Richard I. The authors take a close look at the two most intriguing warrior types involved in the conflict: the Knight Templar and the Saracen Faris. Their motivation, training and combat experiences are examined, as the authors explore what it was really like to fight in the Crusades.
Customer Reviews:
A Fabulous History Book.......2007-02-14
This is the king of Jerusalem, Saladin has just crossed the Jordan River with 20,000 men because Reynold de Chattion has been raiding his caravans and tormenting Saracens for years. The plot of this book is that the Christians from Europe who are currently holding Jerusalem are about to go to war with the Saracens, who are led and governed by Saladin. The king has tried to keep peace with Saladin and believes that Christians and Muslims should live in peace together.
The genre of this book is historical non-fiction. This book is neither a sequel nor a part of a series. I loved this book with all its action, mystery, and historical accuracy. I learned a lot from this book and it reviewed what I already know. This book shows and expresses the point that Christians and Muslims can live together in peace. I think this novel is more for an adult crowd unless the reader is a child and is very mature for his age or if the child loves history.
John S. Basset who is a professor at a college gave the information to the author to write this book. The more I read this book the more I got sucked in to it; I recommend this book to any and every one because it teaches you about history and also is a compelling and interesting story.
-Forrest Robinette
God's Warriors.......2005-07-04
Overall a worthwhile book, written in a somewhat military fashion. The illustrations are either accurate modern ones or good, mostly color, contemporary ones. It puts forth the facts as the author knows them in a fairly straight forward manner. It is nicely bound and presented with quality. It has more information on the muslims than many other books of its kind.
On the bad side, the author has a minor, out of context bias against the crusaders (as can be seen in the annoying conclusion, for example), and their sources for the crusaders are somewhat lacking. Given that, they fill in the blanks with often erroneous and cliched tid bits. Though, to their credit, they do mention "...so presumably..." on occasion.
All together there are some minor, all too common, frustrating bits the historian of europe or its martial traditions may find, but nothing new in books on the crusades, and hardly enough to be taken into account, comparitively, and the book has far more good than bad, and I'd recommend it.
God's Warriors by Nicholson and Nicolle.......2005-06-12
This work describes the horrific battles leading up to the Muslim
capture of Jerusalem in 1187. Saladin destroyed the Christian armies; whereupon, Richard I commenced the 3rd Crusade. Saladin was considered the greatest man in the 12th century Middle Ages. Various pieces of artwork depict the struggles of the period;namely,
- a 12th and 13th century stucco of Persia depicts horsemen
fighting with spears.
- a 13th century lustre plate of Persia shows a tall soldier with
fighting shield.
- In 1139, the Pope banned crossbows in the Laterin Council
except for infidels.
- The famous Battle of Hattin is depicted in 1187.
- A solider with a 1220s turbin is depicted in a manuscript
Clearly, the art of the period mirrored the tremendous military
conflicts engaged by Christians and Arabs alike. This work would be perfect for historians, theologians, arts/crafts enthusiasts
and a wide constituency of people inside and outside formal academe.
Book Description
This book provides an overview and context of the study of the Crusades for postgraduates and academics. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book covers developments in historical theory from logistics to gender studies as applied to Crusades studies.
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Palgrave Advances in Cold War History (Palgrave Advances)
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This book deals with the ideational, cultural, political and strategic aspects of the multifaceted Cold War. Drawing on the work of numerous established scholars and experts, this volume of collected essays combines knowledge of the subject with key intellectual trends that have been developed over recent years. It is an informative and updated account of the subject to familiarize readers with the current state of the discipline.
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Palgrave Advances in Intellectual History (Palgrave Advances)
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The past three decades have seen a remarkable growth of interest in intellectual history. This book provides the first comprehensive survey of recent research in Britain and North America concerned with Europe and the wider world from the Middle Ages to the end of the twentieth century. Each chapter considers developments in intellectual history in particular subject areas, and shows the ways intellectual historians have contributed to more established disciplinary enquiries, from the history of science and medicine to literary studies, art history and the history of political thought. Several chapters provide an expert overview of the current practice of intellectual history, and scrutinize seminal writings by contemporary intellectual historians which have caused particular historiographical controversy.
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Palgrave Advances in the European Reformations (Palgrave Advances)
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Release Date: 2006-01-12 |
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This collection provides a thorough introduction to and critical commentary on recent scholarship on the Reformation. Thirteen leading British, American and Australian scholars discuss the variety of Reformations across Europe, and provide overviews of key problems and themes. In addition to surveying the "long" historiographical background, these essays offer a detailed synthesis of research published in the last twenty or thirty years, including material not normally available to a non-specialist readership. This book is an invaluable introduction to the field for students at all levels.
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In Palgrave Advances in World Histories, ten leading world historians examine the many forms of world history writing, offering an accessible, engaging and comprehensive overview of what it is and what world historians do. This work is a valuable introduction to those new to the field, but will also stimulate discussion, debate and reflection.
Customer Reviews:
Very Smart Stuff.......2007-08-24
An excellent bit of work. Intelligently edited, and well executed, this collection of essays provides an outstanding insight into the developing field of World History.
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Palgrave Advances in Byzantine History (Palgrave Advances)
Jonathan Harris
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This Guide provides an introduction to the source material and to the very best recent writing on the Byzantine empire's political history (306-1453), its art, army, religion, literature and economy. Recent developments in gender studies and archaeology are also explored. The book will be of interest to students and anyone interested in understanding the ongoing debates about this mysterious and fascinating society.
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This text serves as an advanced introduction to the field of international history. With contributions from a range of scholars, it maps the current terrain of the sub-discipline through essays that both appraise recent historiography and analyse theoretical, methodological and conceptual issues. The chapters are thematically focused and expansive in their geographical scope, doing full justice both to established core areas of concern and to innovative approaches. The topics covered are: diplomacy and decision-making; economics; strategy and warfare; ideology; intelligence; propaganda, communications and opinion; non-state actors; imperialism and post-colonialism; gender; culture; systems and IR models; and global history.
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Palgrave Advances in Irish History (Palgrave Advances)
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Palgrave Advances in Irish History provides a much-needed historiographical and interpretative overview of Irish history. While there has always been a large amount of history written in and about Ireland much of it has focused only on the (putative) nation state and relations with Britain. This volume focuses not only on political histories but offers a comprehensive account of Irish history in its manifold aspects such as literary, labor, medical and women's history and history of the Irish population and diasporas, sexuality, and cultural identity, language and traditions.
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This book is the first comprehensive study of the historiography of the Renaissance since Wallace Ferguson's The Renaissance in Historical Thought of 1948. Taking its departure both from developments in history-writing during the Renaissance itself, and from Jacob Burckhardt's hugely influential and controversial characterization of the Renaissance of 1860, the collection of essays explores recent developments in understandings of the Renaissance from a range of different but interlocking chronological, geographical and disciplinary perspectives. Written by an international team of experts, this book is the essential guide to the modern Renaissance debate.
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Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography (Palgrave Advances)
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This is the first book to offer a detailed modern survey of witchcraft historiography. By using a broad chronological structure, from contemporary responses through to modern day developments in historical theory in relation to the study of the history of witchcraft, the book draws on contributions from a range of leading experts to provide a much-needed overview of the area.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower's meteoric rise to prominence during World War II was not -- as popular myth would have us believe -- accidental, but the logical outcome of years of preparation. Eisenhower had enormous talents, opportunities to develop them, and an attentive corps of senior officers who watched and encouraged his ascent to high command. The diaries, letters, and documents assembled in this volume for the first time present a fresh, detailed examination of Dwight D. Eisenhower's formative years and the evolution of his genius for organization, logistics, and strategy.
Eisenhower: The Prewar Diaries and Selected Papers, 1905-1941, edited by Daniel D. Holt and James W. Leyerzapf, follows Eisenhower's career from his tenure as Tank Corps commander to his studies at the Command and General Staff College and at the Army War College. It covers his duties in Western Europe with the American Battle Monuments Commission, his assignment to the office of the Assistant Secretary of War, his service in the War Department with Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur, and his role as Assistant Military Advisor to the American Mission to the Philippines under MacArthur. [The five diaries, personal and family letters, official military correspondence, speeches, published writings, and reports that constitute this volume offer the most compelling evidence yet of the impressive range of Eisenhower's experiences with the interwar army.]
Eisenhower emerges from these documents as a man with uncommon insight into the critically important relationship among military preparation, economic imperatives, public opinion, and bureaucratic politics. His diaries -- particularly the "Notes on Men," the diary entries expressing his mounting exasperation with MacArthur, and his appraisal of the Philippine Army's officer corps -- also reveal a natural leader who could instinctively discern the assets and liabilities of those around him. Eisenhower's conduct of coalition warfare in World War II, when he welded so many strong, disparate personalities into a unified command, is foreshadowed in Eisenhower: The Prewar Diaries and Selected Papers, 1905-1941. Helpfully annotated, with an introduction by John S. D. Eisenhower that places his father's papers in professional and personal context, this volume greatly enhances the portrait we have of Eisenhower's military career and his maturation as a soldier and a leader.
Published in cooperation with the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
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Examine a moving, personal narrative about growing up gay in the south!
Students, teachers, and anyone interested in gay studies and experiences will find that The Mentor: A Memoir of Friendship and Gay Identity delivers a captivating and honest look into the challenges of growing up gay through the context of firsthand experiences, revelations, and realizations. This unique book is an intelligent and personal narrative that considers the social, religious, and emotional aspects of what it is like to grow up as a gay male in the south and examines the enormous social changes regarding homosexuality that have taken place in America during the last half of the century.
Written to reveal the importance of the author's mentor in helping him form his self-identity and educating him about being gay, this book challenges the stereotypical idea that, unlike heterosexuals, gay men are not able to form nurturing, fulfilling bonds between themselves. The Mentor delivers an inspiring story about accepting and understanding your sexuality with the help and guidance of other men who have traveled the road to a successful gay identity.
This unique book offers the courage, strength, and support of a mentor to help guide you through the trials that many young gay men experience, such as: recognizing the possibilities of exploitation by older gay men due to a lack of emotional and social experience creating a loyal relationship with a man that does not include sex but which satisfies emotional needs that many gay men need and long for discovering the importance of a mentor to gay youths, since there are few homosexual role models to learn from
Sincere and well-written, The Mentor provides insight into everything from the author's experience with intolerance of homosexuality by certain religions to struggles with fidelity and infidelity, illustrating the difficult yet universal challenges of life relationships. The Mentor contains suggestions that will help you recognize that your feelings of desire and love and your quest for human connection as a gay man are not the distorted reflections of a heterosexual image, but a healthy gay identity. With this unique book, you will discover how to make the shift from confusion to full acceptance of your gay identity, you will understand that you are not alone, and perhaps you will be encouraged to pass on the legacy of a mentor to other young gay men.
Customer Reviews:
Attention Teachers and Counselors........2005-04-09
The Mentor...should be required reading for every middle and high school teacher and counselor in the land.
It provides insights into more aspects of gay life than any other work I have read. How Jay Quinn was able to get so much into one book is beyond me. One thing I do know is that reading this book could help you to save the lives of our gay youth, and could make living those lives more productive.
READ IT! PASS IT ON!
This book had nothing to do with being a mentor.......2004-11-10
I found this book to be dull, pretentious, and without any merit. Growing up in the south must have been difficult, but I fail to see what this memoir has to do with anything other than the author showing off his checkered past and large vocabulary.
Yawn
Interesting story .......2004-08-19
As a 23-year-old innocent from North Carolina, Jay met an engaging older man also from the South. They began a relationship that never included sex, but involved the most intimate and important times of their lives. Jay portrays his growth through drugs, relationships, family and careers along with Joe's. It is a journey that continues.
A Painful Past That Can Help Others.......2003-12-15
There is a saying "You can't judge a book by its cover." This is true with Jay Quinn's THE MENTOR. I assumed the book was going to be nothing more than an easy summer read when I selected the book, judging from the young man on the cover. When I was on vacation (at the Outer Banks, no less, the setting of the book), I quickly learned this is not beach reading. The book deals with the friendship between the author and his mentor, how that relationship evolved through many difficult twists and turns, and the difference such a meaningful relationship can have in a person's life.
The author is a gay "good ole boy" which makes for an interesting twist. He's also a surfer dude which adds a bit of flair. He is a Catholic convert, but definitely Catholic on his won terms. He faces challenges, bouts of depression, difficulties with substance abuse, and a whole host of other problems, yet now his life has shape. Due in no small part to his mentor, the author has grown from the many experiences that could have destroyed other people.
When a person reads this book, memoirs that are more cathartic than anything else can come to mind, and this book does have a cathartic element to it, but if anything it helps a person relate to the author.
Jay Quinn 101: THE SEED!!.......2002-06-29
The important point to be made about this book is that it is the first published work of Jay Quinn. I recommend that readers start with Quinn's mature, METES AND BONDS --the Lambda award winning novel-- and REBEL YELL anthology series,and then return to this first published work. Being the big fan, as I am, of Jay Quinn's books, I'm not overcritical when I say that this book is not quite "ripe"!! I just feel that most people will appreciate it more after they read the more finished books first. That way, you will better appreciate the dominating themes of his body of work. Why are Jay Quinn's books so important? Because Jay Quinn is not afraid to break taboos. That is #1. In the Lambda Book Report he talks openly about the roles of alcohol and in METES AND BOUNDS he writes about drugs affecting the lives of gay men. From Man-Boy love, to incest relations, he writes the truth. Jay Quinn is the most important new Southern writer today.
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- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
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- Honoring The Civil War Dead: Commemoration And The Problem Of Reconciliation (Modern War Studies)
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