Word: saladin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army hurled huge stones against the walls, and periodically, the guests left the banquet hall to fight for their lives on Kerak's battlements. Only the tower in which the bridal pair was staying was not touched by the enemy fire, on orders of the chivalrous Moslem commander, Saladin...
After Jerusalem fell to Saladin, the Hospitallers looked for a new outlet for their energies. They found it as corsairs against the Moslem empire. As the Knights of Rhodes, an island they captured in 1309, they spent two centuries fighting Turkish pirates and raiding Turkish towns. Driven out of Rhodes at last by Suleiman II, they were granted the sovereignty of Malta by the Emperor Charles V, in exchange for a token payment of a falcon a year. Promptly they resumed their sea-raiding as the Knights of Malta. And lords of Malta they remained until 1798, when their...
...book has a sad ending, but there's a tussle with Saladin and a rousing trip to Constantinople before that, and all in all, Mika (The Egyptian) Waltari had better look to his laurels...
...most momentous episodes in the history of Christendom-the capture by the Crusaders of Jerusalem. In Ride Home Tomorrow, his first novel to appear in the U.S., Britain's Evan John resumes the bloody story nearly a hundred years later (the close of the 12th Century), when Sultan Saladin unified the scattered Moslems and slowly crushed the beleaguered "kingdom which the Crusaders had established in Jerusalem...