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The Sword and the Scimitar, The Saga of the Crusades

The Sword and the Scimitar, The Saga of the Crusades


by Ernle Bradford

  • HISTORY
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

This slim book recounts the tide of pilgrims, knights, men-at-arms, priests, traders and peasants and the nearly two-century effort by the Knights to retake the Kingdom of Jerusalem. (REL58, $10.99)

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