The Siege of Acre, 1189-1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the battle that decided the Third Crusade

A comprehensive history of the most decisive military campaign of the Third Crusade and one of the longest wartime sieges of the Middle Ages.

The two-year-long siege of Acre (1189-1191) was the most significant military engagement of the Third Crusade, attracting armies from across Europe, Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Maghreb.

Drawing on a balanced selection of Christian and Muslim sources, historian John D.

Hosler has written this account of this hard-won victory for the Crusaders, when England's Richard the Lionheart and King Philip Augustus of France joined forces to defeat the Egyptian Sultan Saladin.