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Hollywood made him a blacksmith; Arab chronicles said he was "like a king." He served a leper, but defied Richard the Lionheart. He fought Saladin to a standstill, yet retained his respect. Rather than dally with a princess, he married a dowager queen -- and founded a dynasty. He was a warrior and a diplomat both: Balian d'Ibelin Balian has survived the devastating defeat on the Horns of Hattin, and walked away a free man after the surrender of Jerusalem, but he is baron of nothing in a kingdom that no longer exists. Haunted by the tens of thousands of Christians now enslaved by Saladin, he is determined to regain what has been lost. The arrival of a vast crusading army under the soon-to-be-legendary Richard the Lionheart offers hope -- but also conflict, as natives and crusaders clash and French and English quarrel. This is Part III of a biographical novel about Balian d'Ibelin. The first two books in the series, Knight of Jerusalem and Defender of Jerusalem, were both BRAG Medallion honorees. Defender of Jerusalem won the 2016 Chaucer Award for Historical Fiction set in the Middle Ages and was also awarded the Silver (second place) for Spiritual/Religious Fiction in the 2016 Feathered Quill Book Awards. It was a finalist for the 2016 M.M. Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction. No library descriptions found. |
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the afterward, glossary, and reading lists bring the reader closer to the details underpinning the character's lives, the time and it's tangled histories.
I only wish this book had campaign travel and occupation maps, a timeline, and some family trees. Maybe a collector's edition set could include such extras some time in future .
These stories would make for an epic miniseries with equestrian scenes, intrigue, romance, action and sets that would keep viewers glued to their screens - what a rich time period, told here through Ibelin's story in a way that structures events into a dramatic family narrative that rises and falls holding the reader's interest through what casual students of history or even the avidly curious may have found before to be impenetrable digests of changing leadership and lands lost and won .
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