The Red Brick Times

Warriors of God - Richard Lion Heart and Saladin in the Third Crusade by James Reston, Jr. The review begins as follows: "The Third Crusade (1187-1192) is one of the best imaginable topics for a popular history. The people involved are pretty much the same disputatious crew that we meet in the film, "The Lion in Winter." They and their Muslim opponents and colleagues really did do the kind of things that are supposed to happen only in comic strips. James Reston, who has written about medieval subjects before, does not disappoint in this book. He is to be particularly congratulated for consulting Muslim sources from the period, to balance the well-known European ones. Warriors of God has a bibliography short enough to be useful."


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