God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MDMV13G |
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| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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It is written in a very lively style and with vigour and pace… This is a very exciting book, both scholarly and at the same time accessible to a wider readership.” - Carole Hillenbrand, professor of Islamic history, University of Edinburgh. Reynald’s deliberate excesses are lovingly delineated; the shock value that was his hallmark runs undiluted through its easy and personal chronology… Reynald…is one of those giants of history who may repel but can never be forgotten.” - Minoo Dinshaw, The Spectator (UK)“A cracking read.” - Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads“A swashbuckling yet scholarly
. Born and raised in South Africa, he now lives in London.British audiobook narrator and AudioFile Earphones Award winner Nigel Patterson has many credits as a stage, screen, and voice-over actor that influence his powerful characterization across a broad range of genres. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he is fluent in French and Spanish. Jeffrey Lee has a first-clas
In the West, Reynald has long been considered a minor player in the crusading saga, and is often dismissed as a bloodthirsty maniac who brought disaster on his fellow crusaders. However, by using contemporary documents and original research, Jeffrey Lee overturns this popular perception and questions other prejudices about the crusades that underlie modern misunderstandings of the Middle East.God’s Wolf shows how the crusader kingdom was brought down by a treacherous internal faction, rather than by Reynald’s belligerence. In fact, despite Reynald’s brutality, Lee argues that he was a strong military leader and an effective statesman, whose actions in the Middle East had a far-reaching impact that endures to this day.An epic saga set in the midst of a violent clash of civilizations, God’s Wolf is the fascinating story of an exceptional crusader and a provocative reinterpretation of the crusading era.. “Jeffrey Lee brings a blockbuster sensibility to this slice of the 12th century