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The Crusaders' Last Stand
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A thrilling history of the bloody climax to two centuries of crusading in the Holy Land By the end of the thirteenth century, the great saga of the crusades had come down to a single city. Acre—a once-great Mediterranean metropolis on the shores of the Holy...
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A thrilling history of the bloody climax to two centuries of crusading in the Holy Land
By the end of the thirteenth century, the great saga of the crusades had come down to a single city. Acre—a once-great Mediterranean metropolis on the shores of the Holy Land, home to the Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights—was all that remained of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. As the balance of power in the Levant swung south, the Mamluk Sultanate set this last Christian stronghold in its sights.
Roger Crowley chronicles the tumultuous and violent siege that followed. Mightily fortified, richly provisioned, and newly garrisoned by soldiers from across Europe, from Spain to the Venetian Republic, the Crusaders faced the heaviest bombardment of the age before gunpowder. In one of the most savage sieges of the Middle Ages, the city was reduced to a crumbling ruin.
This is the dramatic story of how two centuries of crusading ended with the fall of a single city—a catastrophe that remade the medieval world.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780300306316
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 May 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Illustration: 61 b-w illus. + 3 maps
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Roger Crowley is a narrative historian of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean. He is the author of seven widely celebrated books including Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire and most recently the international bestseller Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World.
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