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...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...
...swordmakers of Solingen, in Western Germany, knew a thing or two about cutting edges long before Richard the Lionhearted matched blades with wily Saladin. Roman soldiers who had served in the East brought many of the steelmaking secrets of Damascus into the Rhineland, and in the 6th Century Theodoric the Ostrogoth pronounced Solingen's swords worthy of Vulcan's own forge. Charlemagne armed his warriors at Solingen's smithies. During the Crusades they produced the finest blades in Christendom. In the 16th Century the smiths of Solingen engraved the proud label, "Solingen made me," on their blades...
Royal Greeting. Into the Old City of Jerusalem one day last week came King Abdullah of Trans Jordan, clad in a new uniform and white Arab headdress. Playing the double role of Saladin and Richard the Lion-Hearted, he prayed first at the Dome of the Rock Mosque, third holiest shrine in Islam, then in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. As the little king walked through the narrow lanes Arabs shouted: "Long live Abdullah! You are King of Jerusalem...
Last week, after Fawzi Bey had moved to Palestine, one Syrian said: "Arabhistory is repeating itself. In the Crusades, Saladin had to free Jerusalem from the infidels. Today Fawzi Bey is our Saladin...