Holy Warrior

Author : Angus Donald
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429995823
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Holy Warrior written by Angus Donald and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the events of Outlaw, Robin of Locksley—and his sidekick and narrator, Alan Dale—finds himself in a very different England and a very changed world. In 1190 A.D. Richard the Lionheart, the new King of England, has launched his epic crusade to seize Jerusalem from the Saracens. Marching with the vast royal army is Britain's most famous, most feared, most ferocious warrior: the Outlaw of Nottingham, the Earl of Locksley—Robin Hood himself. With his band of loyal men at his side, Robin cuts a bloody swath on the brutal journey east. Daring and dangerous, he can outwit and outlast any foe—but the battlefields of the Holy Land are the ultimate proving ground. And within Robin's camp lurks a traitor—a hidden enemy determined to assassinate England's most dangerous rogue. Richly imagined and furiously paced, featuring a cast of unforgettable characters, Holy Warrior is adventure, history and legend at its finest.

Author : Timothy M. Thibodeau
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476646201
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Henry V, Holy Warrior written by Timothy M. Thibodeau and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Henry V saw his reign and military efforts in France as a holy crusade to reclaim the French throne for his ancestors. Almost everything he did was governed by a well-thought-out philosophy that united political power, religious devotion and military success. This book includes the most up-to-date research on Henry V's reign, with a focus on historiography. His role in English history, as well as his actions as a ruler and military commander, are discussed throughout the text. This approach demonstrates how historians interact with a complicated academic literature that oscillates between hero worship and vilification of Henry. In the end, Henry V is measured by the standards of his day and was unquestionably a successful warrior king.

Author : Sheldon Cohen
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456607316
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Holy Warrior Trojan Horses written by Sheldon Cohen and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Marzan--Searching for meaning in his life, Marzan studies with The Imam and converts to a radical sect of Islam. He's the perfect candidate for a terrorist...American-born, assimilated, and eager to embrace Jihad. Anatoly Shenko--A disaffected Russian scientist working in Siberia, Shenko is one of the world's top experts on biological warfare. But he, his wife and son are in ill health and he's in desperate need of money. Abdul Saidadov--A former Chechen rebel, Saidadov aligns himself with al-Qaeda in hopes of spreading the message of Allah throughout the world. Marzan, Shenko, and Saidadov, along with four other conspirators and the hierarchy of Al-Qaeda, are part of a terrorist plot to smuggle weapons of mass destruction into the United States. To keep America off balance, they are prepared to sow chaos in Chicago. Anthrax and Smallpox are successfully disseminated throughout the city, and as Chicagoans die in ever-increasing numbers, the city soon learns that a nuclear bomb is next. Will a young Chicago Emergency Department physician, a team of FBI agents, and the Chicago Police be able to abort the coming attack?

Author : Edna Fernandes
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1846274230
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Holy Warriors written by Edna Fernandes and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home to all the major religions, India is also, inevitably, host to virtually every type of religious fanatic. No other nation has witnessed as much proselytizing or heard as many war cries in the name of God as India. For centuries, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and Muslims have waged bloody wars, sought violent conversion and declared jihad against their enemies, as their religions have been hijacked by the forces of fundamentalism. In Holy Warriors, Edna Fernandes travels to the country's recent and past theatres of religious extremism - from Kashmir to Gujarat, Punjab to Goa - to meet the generals and foot soldiers of communal wars who assert their faith in rhetoric and rage. Theirs are stories of bigotry and bloodshed, insecurity and despair, but Fernandes listens with understanding, tolerance and a deft sense of humour, and paints a uniquely vivid and clear-sighted picture of a country divided by dogma.

Author : Reagan Fancher
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648897800
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Holy Warrior: Osama Bin Laden and His Jihadi Journey in the Soviet-Afghan War written by Reagan Fancher and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fought between 1979 and 1989, the Soviet-Afghan War provided vital combat experience for Osama bin Laden and his senior lieutenants in al-Qaeda, allowing them to hone their newly acquired skills in guerrilla warfare to later support Islamist insurgencies worldwide. Yet the ruthless al-Qaeda chief’s success depended on the Soviet leadership’s reluctant prolonging of its military occupation out of fear of leaving Afghanistan in hostile hands. As relative latecomers to the ferocious Afghan frontlines, the inexperienced Arab fighters benefitted militarily from the combat training unwittingly provided by their Soviet foes. After skillfully obtaining this command and battle experience by working within the wartime atmosphere, bin Laden channeled al-Qaeda’s efforts in a global jihadi campaign targeting a second superpower and its allies. While allegations of U.S. support for the Arab jihadis have contributed to a popular image of bin Laden and al-Qaeda as C.I.A. creations, the historical facts appear to demonstrate that the combat opportunities provided by the Soviet occupation forces played a far larger role in transforming them into seasoned guerrilla fighters. In this second edition, Reagan Fancher updates and expands his monograph in an Afterword elaborating on the contemporary U.S.-U.K. perceptions of bin Laden's wartime actions and their results as he applied his battle-honed guerrilla tactics, judo skills, and recruitment capabilities in tactically helping Yemen's anti-communist Salafi guerrillas to emerge victoriously in their country's 1994 Civil War before concluding with an assessment of the founding al-Qaeda leader's impact on history. It offers an opportunity for today's decision-makers to learn from history and avoid creating new generations of Osama bin Ladens.

Author : Gilbert Morris
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441233733
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Holy Warrior (House of Winslow Book #6) written by Gilbert Morris and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holy Warrior picks up the House of Winslow saga several years after the Revolutionary War. Two Winslow sons race west--one to embrace his dreams and the other to escape the future. Will either survive the dangers of the frontier?

Author : Richard W. Kaeuper
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812241679
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Holy Warriors written by Richard W. Kaeuper and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaeuper argues that chivalric ideology of the high and later Middle Ages selectively appropriated religious ideas to valorize the institution of knighthood. He describes how both elite warriors and clerics contributed to a Christian theology that validated the knights' bloody profession.

Author : Jonathan Phillips
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588369757
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Holy Warriors written by Jonathan Phillips and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players—knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and Muslims. Jonathan Phillips traces the origins, expansion, decline, and conclusion of the Crusades and comments on their contemporary echoes—from the mysteries of the Templars to the grim reality of al-Qaeda. Holy Warriors puts the past in a new perspective and brilliantly sheds light on the origins of today’s wars. Starting with Pope Urban II’s emotive, groundbreaking speech in November 1095, in which he called for the recovery of Jerusalem from Islam by the First Crusade, Phillips traces the centuries-long conflict between two of the world’s great faiths. Using songs, sermons, narratives, and letters of the period, he reveals how the success of the First Crusade inspired generations of kings to campaign for their own vainglory and set down a marker for the knights of Europe, men who increasingly blurred the boundaries between chivalry and crusading. In the Muslim world, early attempts to call a jihad fell upon deaf ears until the charisma of the Sultan Saladin brought the struggle to a climax. Yet the story that emerges has other dimensions—as never before, Phillips incorporates the holy wars within the story of medieval Christendom and Islam and shines new light on many truces, alliances, and diplomatic efforts that have been forgotten over the centuries. Holy Warriors also discusses how the term “crusade” survived into the modern era and how its redefinition through romantic literature and the drive for colonial empires during the nineteenth century gave it an energy and a resonance that persisted down to the alliance between Franco and the Church during the Spanish Civil War and right up to George W. Bush’s pious “war on terror.” Elegantly written, compulsively readable, and full of stunning new portraits of unforgettable real-life figures—from Richard the Lionhearted to Melisende, the formidable crusader queen of Jerusalem—Holy Warriors is a must-read for anyone interested in medieval Europe, as well as for those seeking to understand the history of religious conflict.

Author : James Brewer Stewart
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 080901596X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Holy Warriors written by James Brewer Stewart and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised to include important new scholarship, James Brewer Stewart's eloquent survey of the abolitionist movement is also a superb analysis of how the antislavery movement reinforced and transformed the dominant features of pre-Civil War America. Revealing the wisdom and na veté of the crusaders' convictions and examining the social bases for their actions, Stewart demonstrates why, despite the ambiguity of its ultimate victory, abolition has left a profound imprint on our national memory.

Author : Y. Tesfai
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230110126
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Holy Warriors, Infidels, and Peacemakers in Africa written by Y. Tesfai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the many challenges facing Africa today, there is the tendency of some to manipulate religious and ethnic identities for private interests. The book examines how religion has given rise to these conditions in Africa, by weaving together issues of poverty, wealth, and violent conflicts.