Roger Crowley: Accursed Tower: The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land [2019] hardback ZCLIM Written with all the electrifying

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Roger Crowley: Accursed Tower: The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land [2019] hardback ZCLIM Written with all the electrifyingThe city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. 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. The 'Accursed