The House of War - The Struggle Between Christendom and the Caliphate

A powerful new history detailing the most significant military clashes between Islam and Christendom over the 1,300 years of the Muslim caliphate.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author's Note and Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations and Maps
Introduction

Part One: The Battle Lines are Drawn
1. Rise of the Caliphate: Yarmouk and al-Qadisiyyah 636

Part Two: The Contest for the Holy Land
2. Victory in the East: Jerusalem 1099
3. Disaster at the Horns: Hattin 1187
4. Expulsion from Eden: Acre 1291

Part Three: Ruin of an Empire
5. The Walls Fail: Constantinople 1453

Part Four: The Struggle for the Middle Sea
6. The Knights at Bay: Rhodes 1522
7. They Shall Not Pass: Malta 1565
8. 'There Was a Man Called John': Lepanto 1571

Part Five: The Marches of Central Europe
9. 'Like a Flood of Black Pitch': Vienna 1683

Part Six: The World Remade
10. He Stoops to Conquer: Jerusalem 1917

Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Simon Mayall is a former soldier in the British Army, and an acknowledged expert on the history of the Middle East, and of the Crusades. Much of his 40-year professional career was focussed on the Middle East, and he has strong family and academic interests in the region. His last appointments were as the British Government's Defence Senior Adviser for the Middle East, and the Prime Minister's Security Envoy to Iraq and the Kurdish Region. He has written book on Turkey's post-Cold War security policy, and a thesis on Jihadist ideology. He most recently published Soldier in the Sand - A Personal History of the Modern Middle East. This work is a combination of military memoir, family story, and an examination of the history, religion, ideologies and culture of the Middle East. He is a regular media contributor on Middle East and defence and security issues.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Simon Mayall, Simon Mayall
• Verlag: Bloomsbury
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheint: 10.03.2026
• EAN: 9781472864369
• ISBN: 978-1-4728-6436-9
• Seiten: 352
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Gewicht: 454 g
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Mittelalter; Islam, Europe, European History, Ottoman Empire, First World War, HISTORY / Europe / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, RELIGION / Christianity / History, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, RELIGION / Islam / History, HISTORY / Military / Medieval, Christianity, Turkey, History of Religion, Medieval History, Middle Eastern history, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Medieval warfare (predating gunpowder warfare), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I