
The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades
Tom Verde
Roger Crowley
Basic Books, 2019.
“When our men laid siege to the city, this tower was the most strongly defended of all; whence they called it the Accursed Tower.”
Wilbrand van Oldenberg, visitor to Acre, 1211 CE
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