The prolonged siege of Acre must come off to the modern reader as an excessively long, drawn out affair. Only military incompetence and excessive caution on both sides could have allowed it to last ...
Dr. Fulton (University of British Columbia), a specialist on medieval military practice, gives us a comprehensive survey of siege operations during Crusades, from the Christian capture of Nicaea in ...
Professor Galbraith traces the colonial adventure, from the Crusades to the present, from the fall of Acre to the fall of Saigon. He looks at the potent myths that sustained colonialism and the real ...