In 1192, two legendary leaders - Richard the Lionheart and Saladin - met in one final, dramatic clash at the Battle of Jaffa, ...

Well, there are a number of reasons. In the first place it is a wonderful story with two Olympic and Olympian figures who come in clashing, clash together in the Holy Land and in a story that really ...

James Reston Jr. is the author, most recently, of "Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade." He is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for ...

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 ...

The Muslim Near East and the First Crusade -- Nur al-Din and the City of Damascus -- Nur al-Din and the rise of the Jihad -- Shirkuh, Saladin and the conquest of Egypt -- Saladin's succession in Egypt ...

A period battle epic should be as simple as it is big. It should never flex its brow in thought, only its bloody bulging biceps, to strike a blow for instinctive cinema. Braveheart and Gladiator ...

Today, the figurative field of battle has become a literal one: Israel's Sharon Plain. Rafael Lewis An Israeli archaeologist says he’s pinpointed the precise location of one of the Third Crusade’s ...