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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Assault on Jerusalem (Pocket Penguins 70's)di Steven Runciman
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In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. Runciman was famous for throwing light on some very dark ages: his definitive A History of the Crusades, first published by Penguin in 1965, transformed the common view of the Holy Wars through its impartial and penetrating approach. Here, he describes the brutal and decisive tenth-century victory of the crusaders over Arab forces in Jerusalem, occupied for over four hundred years. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The siege of that city is retold before the final assault on the great stone walls. The violence of the battle is as nothing compared to the bloodlust that ensues following the Moslem surrender. The Pilgrim soldiers run riot and put the city's Moslem and Jewish populations to the sword. The root of the Islamic world's mistrust of the West is clear to see... ( )