House of War

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

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Islam; Papacy; Catholic; Orthodox; Protestant; Sunni; Shia; Arabs; Turks; Persians; Jerusalem; Constantinople; Istanbul; Malta; Hattin; Saladin; Acre; Richard the Lionheart; Crusades; Mamluks; Mongols; Rhodes; Mehmet the Conqueror; Selim the Grim; Suleyman the Magnificent; Mohacs; Hungary; Lepanto; Vienna; Megiddo; Lawrence of Arabia; Allenby