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Loading... Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusadeby James Reston Jr.
None. This was a good overview of the Third Crusade with a special focus on the larger than life opposing leaders, Richard the Lionheart and Saladin. Very readable. (  )1   cbfiske | Jan 11, 2011 |  A good account of history told in an easy to read style. Reston really breathes some life into his characters and this interesting period of history without taking too many liberties. Saladin appears more the gentleman than Richard who loses some of his lustre, is not perhaps the model hero, that the Lionheart suggests. I will be looking for more of Reston's work. (  )1 bernsad | Dec 5, 2009 | An unforgettable scene of Richard riding up and down a collumn of enemy Saracens, daring any to single combat, and none took him up on it. ( ) Cole_Hendron | Oct 8, 2009 | This book is a highly readable popular history of the Third Crusade. The tone amazes me, so different it is from previous books I have read on the Crusades. What little I remember goes back to my high school reading, when crusaders were sort of high-minded people, and when the notion of conquering the Holy Land for Christ sort of made sense. Clearly it doesn’t today, and Reston is at some pains to point this out. He is also highly disrespectful to the Western leaders of the day, Richard the Lionheart and Philip Augustus, mythical creatures on a par with George Washington and Queen Elizabeth I. Reston depicts them as homosexual lovers whose affair gone wrong was the catalyst for much of the suffering and outrage that became the Third Crusade. Reston’s hero is clearly Saladin who is not only sexually straight, but largely high-minded and tolerant of religions that are not his own, at least tolerant of Christianity. An excellent addition to my library of books about the development of the Middle East and Islam. ( ) baobab | Jun 12, 2009 | Highly recommend this...Richard and Philip Augustus were lovers...Saladin was as great a leader as either of these... (  ) Dakoty | Mar 22, 2009 | no reviews | add a review
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