Perang Salib III 1191 - Richard Vs Shalahuddin

Osprey Campaign #161

by David Nicolle, Christa Hook

Pasukan besar tentara salib dari tiga negara, Inggris, Jerman, dan Prancis, bertolak ke Timur guna menguasai kembali Yerusalem yang jatuh ke tangan Shalahuddin sesudah pertempuran Hattin. Richard I " Sang Hati Singa". Raja Inggris, menjadi pemimpin tertingginya, dan sesudahnya menaklukan kota Akre, dia memimpin balatentaranya berbaris menuju Yerusalem.
Shalahuddin tak tinggal diam, sang Sultan mengerahkan laskarnya untuk menghentikan Tentara Salib. Dua panglima terbesar sepanjang sejarah perang salib, Richard dan Shalahuddin, akhirnya bentrok di medan laga. Sepanjang jalan menyusuri pantai timur tengah, dua tokoh yang dikagumi kawan dan lawan ini beradu kepiawaian bertempur dan memperebutkan kota suci Yerusalem.

Genres: History, Military History, Nonfiction, Medieval, Middle East, Medieval History

103 pages, Paperback

First published November 10, 2005

About the author

David C. Nicolle is a British historian specialising in the military history of the Middle Ages, with a particular interest in the Middle East.

Reviews

[Elliott Bignell]

Osprey's "Campaign" books are an interesting specialisation. Their focus is fairly narrow, and they go into a deal of detail, illustrating their account with author photos of the historic sites concerned, artworks from subsequent decades depicting the events, maps showing the troop movements and photos of museum pieces relevant to the era. The secondary characters are dealt with generously, yet the books do not reach excessive length. The writing is perhaps a little dry.

Having said that, any history of the Third Crusade cannot help but be dominated by the personality of Richard, and to some degree of Saladin. The German Emperor, Friedrich Barbarossa, never turned up after drowning in hip-deep water in Asia Minor. Philip Augustus of France lost interest fairly early and returned home after Acre was taken to try and stab Richard in the back. Richard stayed and led the whole affair, and while it is hard to admire a man who had an entire town executed because ransom payment was dragging out, it is also impossible to deny that his enormous personality and military gifts held his army together in the face of the most adverse conditions. Happily, however, Saladin began to demolish towns in his path, so he never got to massacre another civilian population and his attempt on Jerusalem failed. Richard's march South was apparently a masterpiece of discipline, organisation and physical endurance, and managed to inflict a serious tactical defeat on the opposing forces into the bargain.

Saladin's post-Hattin strategy has been criticised, but this volume offers some exoneration, as it documents that he was following accepted Muslim military doctrine. This seems thin consolation, as a strategic genius would have established a new doctrine and perhaps averted this Crusade pre-emptively. However, it is true to say that his forces were wearying, the Abbasids a complicating threat and that he could not have anticipated either Richard's force of personality or his ruthlessness. At any rate, the two parted with some appreciation of each other's gifts. This is not the only way in which the book provides a sophisticated take on facile retrospective criticisms.

A brief read at fewer than 100 pages, and well worth the effort.

[Imran]

Buku ini memiliki ilustrasi yang bagus tentang pergerakan pasukan Richard dan Salahuddin.
Hal seperti ini sangat jarang ditemukan dalam buku sejarah yang lain.

[Mike Gindling]

A good overview of the campaign and battles. The maps were great.

[Matthew]

This served as a decent supplement to Brownworth's In Distant Lands.

[Nancy Kendall]

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