Crusades War

The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)—covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious...

Throughout the Gulf War of 1991, unprecedented restrictions on the media’s access to the battlefield kept the true story of that brief, brutal conflict from being told. Now, after two years of intensive research, Rick Atkinson has written what will surely come to be recognized as the definitive chronicle of the war.

Five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower was arguably the single most important military figure of World War II. Crusade in Europe tells the complete story of the war as he planned and executed it. Through Eisenhower's eyes the enormous scope and drama of the war—strategy, battles, moments of great decision—become fully illuminated in all their fateful glory. Penned before his Presidency, this account is deeply human and helped propel him to the highest office.

The world is suddenly thrown into chaos as a research project is sabotaged and the dead come alive to feast on the living - it seems like an old story, doesn’t it? The Apocalypse Crusade is not that book. You are not suddenly thrust into a world gone mad. Instead, you get front-row seats to how the sh-t went down. In real time you are witness to the agony and the horror…and the terrible stupidity that made it all possible.

As if a zombie apocalypse wasn't bad enough, the country is also in the throes of a second Civil War. Massachusetts has closed its borders to everyone, including the 101st Airborne Division and five million desperate refugees. It's an act of rebellion that the President won't stand for, and with nuclear missiles flying by the hundreds in China, he mulls the idea of using nukes on American soil for the first time.

From the time the country was founded, early Americans assumed that the land's natural resources were infinite, including its birds, which were zealously hunted for food, game, and fashion. With the rapid extinction of the passenger pigeon—a bird once so numerous that its flocks darkened the sky in flight—many realized actions needed to be taken if other birds were to be saved. What followed was both a spiritual awakening and a great crusade to save birds and their habitat.

In November 1095, Pope Urban II stood before a crowd in central France and issued a call that would send tens of thousands of people on a journey most would never complete. What followed was not merely a military campaign but a mass movement that reshaped the medieval world, dragging peasants and princes alike across thousands of miles of hostile territory toward a city most had only heard of in scripture. The First Crusade remains one of history's most improbable ventures, a collision of religious fervor, political calculation, and raw human endurance that ended in triumph and atrocity in ...

You think you know about Islam. But, did you know that Islam teaches that Muslims must wage war to impose Islamic law on non-Muslim states, or that American Muslim groups are engaged in a huge cover-up of Islamic doctrine? These and other "politically incorrect" facts are revealed by Robert Spencer in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades).

“Crusade” means a war for the sake of the Cross, a war to protect Christian people from persecution and death on account of their faith in Jesus Christ. Everyone has heard of the crusades of the Middle Ages. But few know of the crusade fought for this same purpose in Spain during the early twentieth century. This is the story of that crusade, now honored in no other book in the English language. Most people who know of the Spanish Civil war do not understand why it was fought or how it was really won. This book will tell you. There is no story like it in the history of the twentieth century.

Islamophobia has spiraled into a global menace, and democratic and authoritarian regimes alike have deployed it as a strategy to persecute their Muslim populations. With this book, Khaled A. Beydoun details how the American War on Terror has facilitated and intensified the network of anti-Muslim campaigns unfolding across the world. The New Crusades is the first book of its kind, offering a critical and intimate examination of global Islamophobia and its manifestations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and regions beyond and in between.

Five days in the grinder. Five days of endless pain and no sleep. Five days of the hardest work imaginable-it’s the work of surviving and not one second of it has been easy. This is the story of how the world ends as we know it. It’s the story of the apocalypse. It’s the story of how we lost. Those of us who can fight against these urges are called the good guys. There’s very few of us left at the beginning of day five and by the end...well, you will have to see for yourself if there are any good guys left when the clock strikes midnight on humanity.

In 1228, the most powerful ruler in Christendom sailed for the Holy Land under a sentence of excommunication, condemned by the very Church whose holiest city he intended to recover. Emperor Frederick II had spent thirteen years postponing his crusade, and when he finally departed, Pope Gregory IX declared him an enemy of the faith. What followed was the strangest crusade ever undertaken, a military expedition that achieved its goal without fighting a single major battle. Frederick recovered Jerusalem through negotiation with Sultan al-Kamil of Egypt, exploiting the divisions within the ...

In the summer of 1187, a single catastrophic defeat erased nearly a century of Christian conquest in the Holy Land. The Battle of Hattin destroyed the army of Jerusalem, and within months Saladin had recovered the holy city that crusaders had seized in blood eighty-eight years before. The shockwave that rippled across Europe would summon three kings and the largest military expedition Christendom had ever assembled. What followed was not a simple clash of faiths but a collision of extraordinary personalities pursuing conflicting agendas. Richard the Lionheart and Saladin never met face to ...

This is the history of the world, in summarized form. Learn how the major figures, events, and ages of history connect without detail-overload. Spanning from the beginning of the Universe to the Space Age, and even predictions of the future, this is the shortest history book you will ever read.

Here is the problem. You have not been told the truth about the Crusades and I think you need to know about many more than 100 wars. These were fought in the name of God over a 900-year period starting around 630AD only to be continued in many areas even today. One might say there are 3 types of war; Greed War, Hate War, and Religious War. Most of the time it’s a mixture but for one major time in our history it seemed that many of the wars were considered Holy Wars or Crusades. You probably were told the Crusades involved European lords and Kings who went to kill Muslims and Jews for ...

In an apocalypse, there is definitely a beginning where mistakes are made and the seeds of evil are allowed to sprout and take shape. However, an end is not so certain. Once an apocalypse occurs, not even death is certain. Sometimes, death is only the beginning.

“Dan Jones is an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one find serious scholarship so easy to read.” – The Times, Book of the Year A New York Times bestseller, this major new history of the knights Templar is “a fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate...

In 1147, the two most powerful monarchs in Europe led the largest military expedition Christendom had ever assembled toward the Holy Land. Within eighteen months, their armies had been annihilated in the mountains of Anatolia, their survivors humiliated before the walls of Damascus, and their grand enterprise reduced to a bitter search for scapegoats. The Second Crusade remains one of history's most dramatic examples of how ambition, miscalculation, and human frailty can transform a sacred mission into catastrophe. This book traces the crusade from its origins in the shocking fall of Edessa...

With the great battle between man and the undead apparently won and the situation seemingly in hand, the president leaps into action to take all the credit he can for saving the country and defending the Quarantine Zone. Surrounded by battalions of television news crews, he authorizes Operation Swift Stand in which he commits the nation's entire rapid deployment force in a show-stopping extravaganza designed more to rekindle patriotic fervor and to lift his own sagging poll numbers than to stop the undead.

Sibling Demi-Gods battle for control of the souls of the dead, in this award-winning fantasy series. Seventeen-year-old Cayden Tiernan and his twin sister Avery are blissfully unaware of their true identities, due to their sudden reincarnation into a mortal form. Hunted from birth, they are hidden by their father in the remote and treacherous cliffs of Sanctuary-By-The-Sea, and raised as simple sheepherders. Their huntress is not your normal run-of-the-mill villain. The dark power behind Queen Alcina’s desperate search will allow no mercy, for this dark force is responsible for their ...