375 Knights vs 26,000 Muslims: The Charge That Saved Jerusalem

Описание: November 1177. A teenage king, his skin ravaged by leprosy and his hands curled into useless claws, stares across the desert at an approaching apocalypse. Saladin, history’s most brilliant sultan, has arrived with twenty-six thousand elite warriors to erase the Kingdom of Jerusalem from the map. The city’s main army is hundreds of miles away, leaving the Holy Land virtually defenseless. Behind the king, only five hundred men remain—a desperate mix of weary soldiers and one hundred and eighty-seven warrior-monks of the Knights Templar.

To any rational mind, the choice is simple: hide behind the walls and pray for a quick demise. But Baldwin IV is no ordinary teenager. Despite a body that is failing him more with every passing hour, he orders himself strapped to his saddle and calls for the True Cross to be carried onto the field. He knows that his next decision will either result in a divine miracle or the largest massacre in the history of the Crusades.

While Saladin’s massive force disperses to forage, confident that no enemy in the field would dare strike, the "Leper King" prepares a gamble that defies every law of military science. In the silence before the dawn, a wall of steel gathers on the hills of Montgisard, waiting for a single, perfect moment to unleash a medieval blitzkrieg. This is the story of a boy who refused to surrender, a charge that should have been homicide, and a day when five hundred men stood against the tide of history.