Book description
The extraordinary author of The Bear Flag and Pacific Street returns to print at last with a remarkable novel. Set in the Holy Land in 1187 A.D., Jerusalem is an epic of war and political intrigue, of passion and religious fervor.
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When I was a teenager, I read this author’s The Earl (1971) which was published in the UK as Hammer for Kings. Set in the reign of King Stephen of England (1135-54), it did not really engage me. So when I came across this later work I hesitated. The lead up to the battle of Hattin and the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin in 1187 is fairly well-trodden ground, not least by Ridley Scott’s 2005 film Kingdom of Heaven. As it turned out, Holland gives a marvellous evocation of the time and the place and succeeds in building up the…
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