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David Miller.
Richard the Lionheart: The Mighty Crusader.
London: Phoenix, 2005 (previously issued in hardback, 2003).
ISBN 0753818809;
ISBN-13: 9780753818800.
Paperback, perfect bound.
127x196x17mm.
xvii,205pp inc. 3 illustrations, plus 8 pages of plates, mostly monochrome.
English.
Unused bargain.This item £4.00
[Publisher's price £8.99]
236g.
King Richard I won an enduring reputation for personal courage in his numerous wars, but his reputation as a military commander, let alone as a political leader, is less certain. British historians in particular have judged him harshly for what has been seen as absenteeism: he spent so little time in England that his younger brother John was eventually able to seize power while he was away.
His ability to undertake a two-year campaign at the other end of the Mediterranean demonstrated strategic skills far in advance of other Crusader commanders. Not the least of his problems was that his army was actually an alliance of often mutually hostile elements and to hold this multinational force together for so long suggests the king's political talent has been undervalued.
If King Richard ultimately failed to wrest the Holy City from Saladin and the Muslim armies, he restored the fortunes of the Crusader Kingdom that had been on the brink of extinction when he set out for the Middle East. As this book makes clear, these achievements give him the right to be included in the front rank of great military commanders.
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