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Acre 1291: Bloody sunset of the Crusader states (Campaign, 154) Paperback – Illustrated, August 10, 2005

by David Nicolle (Author), Graham Turner (Illustrator)
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Osprey's study of the battle at Acre, one of the last campaigns of the Crusages (1095-1291). In April 1291, a Mamluk army laid siege to Acre, the last great Crusader fortress in the Holy Land. For six weeks, the siege dragged on until the Mamluks took the outer wall, which had been breached in several places. The Military Orders drove back the Mamluks temporarily, but three days later the inner wall was breached. King Henry escaped, but the bulk of the defenders and most of the citizens perished in the fighting or were sold into slavery. The surviving knights fell back to their fortress, resisting for ten days, until the Mamluks broke through. This book depicts the dramatic collapse of this great fortress, whose demise marked the end of the Crusades in the Holy Land.
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    August 10, 2005
  6. Dimensions
    7.23 x 0.19 x 9.68 inches
  7. ISBN-10
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Highly visual guides to history's greatest conflicts, detailing the command strategies, tactics, and experiences of the opposing forces throughout each campaign, and concluding with a guide to the battlefields today.

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David Nicolle is Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Medieval Studies, Nottingham University. He is the author of over a dozen books on medieval military history.



Graham Turner is a leading historical artist, specializing in the medieval period. He has illustrated numerous titles for Osprey, covering a wide variety of subjects from the dress of the 10th-century armies of the Caliphates, through the action of bloody medieval battles, to the daily life of the British Redcoat of the late 18th century. The son of the illustrator Michael Turner, Graham lives and works in Buckinghamshire, UK.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Osprey Publishing; First Edition (August 10, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1841768626
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1841768625
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.23 x 0.19 x 9.68 inches
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David Nicolle was born in London in 1944. He worked for BBC Television News from 1963 to 1967. Having travelled widely in the Middle East, David Nicolle transferred to the BBC Arabic Service where he worked as a topical-talks writer from 1967 to 1971. In 1972 he returned to university, eventually receiving a PhD from Edinburgh University.

From 1983 to 1987 Dr. Nicolle lectured in art history at Yarmouk University, Jordan. After returning to England, he continued to undertake research and has over one hundred books to his name. An independent scholar, he is an Honorary Research Fellow attached to Nottingham University as well as being a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Asiatic Society (both in London). David Nicolle has worked for television in the UK, the USA, Germany and Syria as an advisor and contributor. He is married to a retired American academic, Colette Nicolle, who is also now a co-author and they live in north London.

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Brian Wayne Wells
5.0 out of 5 stars The Fall of the City of Acre to the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt in 1291
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2016
This is a short history of the Battle of Acre, one of the greatest battles of the crusades. This is another of the books in the "Essential Histories" series as published by Osprey Publishing Company.
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Bayard B.
4.0 out of 5 stars Detailed book on the situation regarding Acre but frustrating for the reasons why the war occurred.
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2020
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This is a very detailed book on the attack, siege, and fall of Acre in modern Lebanon. The text is accompanied by numerous modern-day black and white photos and some color photos of sites and buildings. There are also several very good color maps with extensive labeling. The text discusses the situation at the grand strategic level comprising Egypt, Syria, Sudan and Ethiopia, and the local tactical or combat level.

I found the book to be somewhat frustrating, though, in that its discussion of the reasons for why the war and siege occurred to be simplistic. It states that the war began because some Christian crusaders massacred some Moslem traders. But such massacres, by both sides, had been going on for two centuries. I think that the reason may be that this book is the third in a three-part series. The two predecessors are "Campaign 19 Hattin 1187" and "Campaign 132 The First Crusade, 1096 - 99." I have not read those two books. It appears that you either need to read them before reading this book or else possess a fair amount of knowledge of the Crusader era in order to understand the background to this book. I have a general knowledge of the history of the Crusader states but apparently not enough.
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Sherry
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2018
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lordhoot
4.0 out of 5 stars Introductory book on the siege of Acre
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2005
I found David Nicolle's book on the siege of Acre to be pretty informative considering that there isn't much written about this siege and the fall of the major Crusader city which signaled the end of the Latin kingdom forever. In a typical Osprey Campaign series, the book basically summarized the entire war the Malmuk wages against the their neigbors during the last few years leading up to the fall of Acre. The primary sources were probably too few to provide a lot of details but it also prevent massive information overload as well.

I read the previous written review and thought the writer there expected too much from such a short book. But he does have certain points which Mr. Nicolle should have included, an order of battle, a good clear 3D map of Acre with scales in a single page instead of the map being compromised by a page divider. But that previous reviewer is wrong on one thing, Mr. Nicolle does give a clear reasons why the fortress city fell. Morale failure was key factor and despite of the questionable number of 15,000 defenders, there weren't too many real warriors among that questionable number. The city defense seem to be centered around the military orders and they don't seem to be in high numbers. Advanced mining and siege artillery did most of the damages. I think the lack of primary sources here is responsible for the lack of number tally.

While the book wasn't as totally detail or totally informative as I liked, it was still pretty good reading and gives any readers who are not total experts on this field a nice summarized account of the fall of Acre and the events that led up to it.
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Mike Dillemuth
3.0 out of 5 stars A Good Story Despite The Chaos
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2006
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For the most part, this book is written at the usual high standard that one expects from Osprey books. Unfortunately, there are a few exceptions. First, the maps are disappointing. The font is so small that the reader will need to break out a magnifying glass. This font size was probably selected so that a ton of information could be placed on the map. The sad part is that much of this information is unnecessary. The legends are so full of data as to make the map confusing and thus, practically useless. When Pope Nicholas IV dies in Rome, there is no need to put a marker on the map of Italy to show where the city is located. In addition, some maps contain a chaotic mixture of both troop movements and political movements. The publisher would have been better off to eliminate the irrelevant information and make the map easier to read.

The maps are not the only confusing aspect of this book. The siege of Acre contains several notable characters who are clearly relevant. Unfortunately, they are conspicuously absent in the chapter on Opposing Commanders. The confusion is made worse by the fact that their titles have only subtle differences. For example, the Commanders chapter describes the Grand Master of the Hospitallers. He is subsequently wounded and evacuated by sea. The text of the battle describes the valiant death of the Hospitaller Matthew de Clermont. Unless the reader is paying attention, there is confusion over whether this person died or was evacuated. Only by going back through the text can one clarify that de Clermont was a Marshal and not the Grand Master (i.e.: two different people). The text of the book is consistent. The problem is that there are numerous people of significance discussed in the text but not all of them are noted in the "Opposing Commanders" chapter at the beginning of the book.

Despite these two confusing traits, the rest of the book is clearly well done. The 3-D bird's eye view maps are excellent and the full color battle scenes are superb. The text not only describes the siege of Acre, but also the fall of Tripoli and other significant events during this time. It is a good overview of this battle. Unfortunately, the chaos that took hold of the city during its final moments appears to have traveled through time and influenced some of the writing. Despite the confusing maps and names, it is still a good little read.
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Caitlin Murphy
4.0 out of 5 stars decent work
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2015
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A fairly decent work, summing up well the fall of Acre. There are two main flaws, however. Firstly I found the illustrations to be somewhat lacklustre. Not bad, but not exactly up to other Osprey Campaign's standards. Secondly there are some factual flaws. As a previous reviewer mentioned military numbers are taken at face value. Early on the author claims that the Angevin 'Kings of Jerusalem '(one has to use the term very loosely, being in practice more a title than anything else) were the same Plantagenet kings of England. This is blatantly false. The Plantagenet kings were once also called Angevins due to holding the duchy of Anjou. By the time of the fall of Acre the duchy of Anjou was ruled by a cadet branch of the French Capetian dynasty, the Angevins who claimed the kingship. It may seem something of a minor point, however it cast some wariness when it came to the rest of the work where one's knowledge might be lesser.
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SVHA
4.0 out of 5 stars Interressante und lebendige Abhandlung
Reviewed in Germany on June 11, 2013
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Nicolle schafft es wie in seinen anderen Werken auch, dem Laien diese wichtige und interessante Episode nahezubringen. Politische, strategische und historische Fakten sind gut ausgewogen.
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