Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam

<p>Raymond Ibrahim's companion to Sword and Scimitar: the Christian commanders — El Cid, Godfrey of Bouillon, Richard the Lionheart, Ferdinand III, Hunyadi, Skanderbeg, John III Sobieski, Vlad the Impaler — who held the line against Islamic conquest from the 8th to the 17th century. Source-based, narrative, and a corrective to the standard story where the Crusades are the only chapter anyone remembers.</p>