This collection documents the centuries-long military & civilizational conflict between Christendom & Islam. Starting with the first Crusades through the fall of Constantinople & the wars of the military religious orders, alongside the medieval European kingdoms & warrior dynasties that shaped the Western world. The archive spans the full sweep of the Crusading era through rigorous narrative history, the rise & spectacular fall of the Knights Templar, the Plantagenet warrior kings who forged medieval England, & Raymond Ibrahim's trilogy documenting fourteen centuries of Christian-Islamic warfare from the perspective of the defenders of the West. Together these works challenge the sanitized modern narrative of the Crusades & restore the military, theological, & civilizational stakes of a conflict whose consequences continue to reverberate in the geopolitics of the present day.
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Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam - Hardcover -
Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West - Hardcover -
The Two Swords of Christ: Five Centuries of War Between Islam and the Warrior Monks of Christendom - Hardcover -
Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands - Paperback -
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England - Paperback -
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors - Paperback -
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages - Paperback -
The Normans - Hardcover -
The Normans: From Raiders to Kings - Paperback -
The Autobiography of Sir Götz von Berlichingen - Paperback -
Folly and Fortune in Early British History: From Caesar to the Normans - Hardcover