Accursed Tower - Roger Crowley
Accursed Tower - Roger Crowley A thrilling history of the dramatic siege of Acre in 1291, the bloody climax to the two hundred years of the Holy Land Crusades. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years…
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Accursed Tower - Roger Crowley
A thrilling history of the dramatic siege of Acre in 1291, the bloody climax to the two hundred years of the Holy Land Crusades. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold.
The `Accursed Tower' was With his customary narrative brilliance and immediacy, Roger Crowley chronicles the tumultuous and violent attack on Acre, the heaviest bombardment before the age of gunpowder, which left this once great Mediterranean city a crumbling ruin.