"The Last Crusaders by Barnaby Rogerson
Norman Stone looks beyond the battlefield at a clash of civilisations
George Orwell once summarised history in terms of technology: the castle defeated the knight, gunpowder defeated the castle, and the cheque-book defeated gunpowder (adding that the machine-gun defeated the cheque-book). Rogerson's subject is an illustration of two of these elements."
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