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 Free Download Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire By John Man 2016 | 302 Pages | ISBN: 0306825422 | EPUB | 23 MB First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Bantam Press.As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the twelfth century, Saladin is the Islamic world's preeminent hero. A ruthless defender of his faith and a brilliant leader, he also possessed qualities that won admiration from his Christian foes. But Saladin is far more than a historical hero. He is a symbol of hope for an Arab world once again divided, an immensely potent icon of religious and military resistance to the West. 'Saladin' explores the life and enduring legacy of this champion of Islam while examining his significance for the world today.  Free Download Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands by Dan Jones, Penguin Audio English | 2019 | ISBN: B07VKD24MR | Format: MP3 / 16 hours and 7 minutes | 880 Mb A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the author of Powers and Thrones. For more than 1,000 years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human and avowedly pluralist path through the crusading era. Expanding the usual timeframe, Jones looks to the roots of Christian-Muslim relations in the eighth century and tracks the influence of crusading to present day. He widens the geographical focus to far-flung regions home to so-called enemies of the Church, including Spain, North Africa, southern France, and the Baltic states. By telling intimate stories of individual journeys, Jones illuminates these centuries of war not only from the perspective of popes and kings, but from Arab-Sicilian poets, Byzantine princesses, Sunni scholars, Shi'ite viziers, Mamluk slave soldiers, Mongol chieftains, and barefoot friars.  Free Download Gabriele Esposito, "Armies of the Crusaders, 1096-1291: History, Organization, Weapons and Equipment" English | ISBN: 1399067443 | 2024 | 176 pages | EPUB | 140 MB The Crusades were among the most astonishing historical events that took place during the Middle Ages. After centuries of relative isolation following the fall of the Roman Empire, Western Europe looked again towards the Middle East in search of lands to conquer. Incited by the Church to believe that the Holy Land must be 'liberated' from its Muslim rulers (who had by then occupied it for centuries), and that to do so would bring spiritual salvation, many thousands from all over Christian Europe 'took the cross' and joined the Crusades. Led by some of the most illustrious personalities of the age, such as Richard the Lionheart and Frederick Barbarossa, they fought numerous campaigns and even founded new 'Crusader states', some of which lasted for almost two centuries.  Free Download Elizabeth Siberry, "Tales of the Crusaders - Remembering the Crusades in Britain " English | ISBN: 0367265249 | 2021 | 138 pages | EPUB | 1447 KB Engaging the Crusades is a series of volumes which offer windows into a newly emerging field of historical study: the memory and legacy of the crusades. Together these volumes examine the reasons behind the enduring resonance of the crusades and present the memory of crusading in the modern period as a productive, exciting, and much needed area of investigation.  Richard T. Kelly, "Crusaders: A Novel" English | 2008 | ISBN: 0571228062 | 540 pages | EPUB | 0.7 MB Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Autumn 1996, and things can only get better - or so believes the Reverend John Gore bound for the North-East after a decade's absence, charged with the mission of 'planting' a new church in the deprived West End of town. But on his return to a Victorian city in the throes of 'regeneration', Gore finds his task complicated by run-ins with three impressive locals, all of whom he needs to successfully bring off his mission. Slowly these relationships draw him into a moral maze, as he learns more than he wished about the secrets people keep so as to live with themselves.
![Crusaders Wars and Crusades Between Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages [Audiobook]](https://i120.fastpic.org/big/2022/0709/33/b984c1725fe0647d858a0e9cfbe44d33.jpeg) English | ASIN: B0B5FJX581 | 2022 | 1 hour and 8 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 126 MB The Crusades are one of those dark chapters in history that we would rather forget, especially religious people. In name of the church, or other religions, people killed, destroyed, looted, and burned cities to the ground. There is nothing "holy" about attacking and plundering, yet this is what they did. The Crusades were a series of spiritual fights in the Middle Ages period that were begun, supported, and sometimes ordered by the Latin Church. The most popular of these Crusades were those to the Holy Land between 1095 and 1291, which aimed to recover Jerusalem and its environments from Islamic rule. ![Crusaders, Gangsters, and Whiskey Prohibition in Memphis [Audiobook]](https://i116.fastpic.org/big/2022/0322/02/40bb2fd38f6d3821e809c6552fea5402.jpeg) English | ASIN: B09MWP73K3 | 2021 | 8 hours and 31 minutes |MP3 | M4B | 234 MB Prohibition, with all its crime, corruption, and cultural upheaval, ran its course after 13 years in most of the rest of the country - but not in Memphis, where it lasted 30 years. Patrick O'Daniel takes a fresh look at those responsible for the rise and fall of Prohibition, its effect on Memphis, and the impact events in the city made on the rest of the state and country. Prohibition remains perhaps the most important issue to affect Memphis after the Civil War. It affected politics, religion, crime, the economy, and health, along with race and class.  Elizabeth Siberry, "The New Crusaders: Images of the Crusades in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries " English | ISBN: 1859283330 | 2000 | 256 pages | PDF | 5 MB This is the first comprehensive study of the use, abuse and development of the crusade image in popular and high culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing upon a diverse range of sources, mainly from the British Isles, but with parallels from Western Europe and North America, the author shows the different approaches to the history of the crusading movement and crusade images taken by the historian, composer, artist and author.  Crusaders Against Opium: Protestant Missionaries in China, 1874-1917 By Kathleen L. Lodwick 1995 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0813119243 | PDF | 19 MB Opium addiction in China during the closing decades of the Ch'ing dynasty afflicted all segments of society. From government officials to farmers, the population fell prey to the effects of the drug. Some provinces reported addiction rates as high as eighty percent.With the birth of Chinese nationalism, reformers -- missionaries who had witnessed the effects of opium on Chinese society, students who had studied abroad and returned to their native land with broader perspectives, families who had lost all through the addiction of a loved one, doctors who had firsthand knowledge that opium use led only to death -- cried out against the drug.Even though many were convinced that opium use had sapped the strength of China, ending the use of the drug was a complicated problem. Opium trade financed the colonial government of India, and imports amounted to many tons annually. Domestic poppies were also cultivated as source of income.Kathleen Lodwick examines the intersecting efforts of Protestant missionaries, particularly medical doctors, who had long denounced opium use, the British Royal Commission on Opium, which was decidedly pro-opium, the U.S. Philippine Commission, which denounced not only the trade but the Chinese people, and the British officials who finally undertook the task of ending the importation of opium to China.China kept few records on the amount of drug use or its effects. Missionary medical doctors conducted the first scientific survey on the effects of the drug, and their findings provided clear evidence of its perniciousness. Such evidence could not be ignored, whatever the fortunes involved, and missionaries conducted a campaign of education and awareness in China and abroad. As a result of their efforts, China and Britain entered into a treaty that called for all opium trade to cease by 1917, and both governments as well as the missionaries become immediately active toward that end. The suppression campaign was among the most successful of the late Ch'ing reforms.Lodwick tells a fascinating story of imperial exploitation and of a strain of honest crusaders who sought to right some of the wrongs their own nation was perpetrating. This book represents a strong argument against legalization of addictive drugs, a topic being discussed today in the United States as a solution to the societal problems our own drug use has caused.  Pershing's Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I by Richard Faulkner English | February 10th, 2017 | ISBN: 0700623736 | 784 pages | True EPUB | 5.34 MB The Great War caught a generation of American soldiers at a turning point in the nation's history. At the moment of the Republic's emergence as a key player on the world stage, these were the first Americans to endure mass machine warfare, and the first to come into close contact with foreign peoples and cultures in large numbers. What was it like, Richard S. Faulkner asks, to be one of these foot soldiers at the dawn of the American century? How did the doughboy experience the rigors of training and military life, interact with different cultures, and endure the shock and chaos of combat? The answer can be found in Pershing's Crusaders, the most comprehensive, and intimate, account ever given of the day-to-day lives and attitudes of the nearly 4.2 million American soldiers mobilized for service in World War I. |
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