The Field of Blood, Nicholas Morton
The Field of Blood, Nicholas Morton
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The Field of Blood
The Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East

Author: Nicholas Morton

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Unabridged: 6 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/20/2018


Synopsis

In 1119, the people of the Near East came together in an epic clash of horses, swords, sand, and blood that would decide the fate of the city of the Aleppo—and the eastern Crusader states. Fought between tribal Turkish warriors on steppe ponies, Arab foot soldiers, Armenian bowmen, and European knights, the battlefield was the amphitheater into which the people of the Near East poured their full gladiatorial might. Carrying a piece of the true cross before them, the Frankish army advanced, anticipating a victory that would secure their dominance over the entire region. But the famed Frankish cavalry charge failed them, and the well-arranged battlefield dissolved into a melee. Surrounded by enemy forces, the crusaders suffered a colossal defeat. With their advance in Northern Syria stalled, the momentum of the crusader conquest began to evaporate, and would never be recovered.

About Nicholas Morton

Nicholas Morton is a senior lecturer at Nottingham Trent University. The author or editor of three books, Morton lives in Nottinghamshire, U.K.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel

This is the kind of book that fills in the spaces of broader history tales, in this case the time between the First and Second Crusade. It shows the complexity of the Crusades and the Crusader States that is often missed by most accounts. It becomes less about religion, though it had its part, and m......more

Goodreads review by Mark

Some books lend themselves to audio books, not this one. Don't ask me to recall or write about any of the endless French and Arabic names or where all the small towns are located throughout the Levante. A good chart of names, events, alliances, and maps would be very useful. That being said, it is a......more

Goodreads review by Fahed

This book was built around the hypothesis that the defeat the crusades incurred in the field of blood near Aleppo has contributed to the overall failure and collapse of the crusaders, which was well-discussed by the author, and it has genuine foundation in the history. The book was undeniably well-wr......more

Goodreads review by Nathan

This is the sort of battle study that deserves to be done more often, a look at an important turning point in a much larger campaign that demonstrates an inflection point that changes the nature of a conflict from what it was looking to be to what it ends up being and that demonstrates some essentia......more