Joseph Jobson
Patrick Wormald, 18 April 1985
Soldiers of the Faith: Crusaders and Moslems at War
by Ronald Finucane.
Dent, 247 pp., £12.50, November 1983,0 460 12040 9 Show More
by Ronald Finucane.
Dent, 247 pp., £12.50, November 1983,
“... biographer, could scarcely complain of his discussion of the Acre massacre (on which Mr Finucane is more lurid). If Newby’s Saladin somehow fails to inspire, this is partly because of his low-key, if agreeable style, but also, perhaps, because the Moslem sources got Saladin right in the first place. His achievements were real but, so far as his ... ”
