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Title: The Battle of Hattin
Review: Probably not even a third of this volume actually discusses the climatic Battle of Hattin (4 July 1187 AD) - most of the text is devoted to describing the organization of both armies, and the book is concluded with one of the better accounts I have encountered of Salah al-Din's siege and capture of Jerusalem - as is portrayed, fairly accurately in the movie `Kingdom of Heaven'. Nonetheless this is a valuable book for anyone with a particular interest in the Crusader era, and it is supplemented by numerous photographs, several Angus McBride paintings of the contemporary Islamic soldiers, and three bird's eye view maps of the battlefield and troop movements.
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