Accursed Tower Quotes

“Qutuz and his army met the Mongols at Ayn Jalut—the appropriately named Goliath’s Spring, where David was said to have slain the giant—thirty miles southeast of Acre on September 3, 1260, for a contest that has been claimed as epochal in world history.”
― Roger Crowley, The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades