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The Flame of Islam. This book is complete in itself. It tells the story of the first Christian kingdom in the Moslem world, until its overthrow. We are apt, all of us, to think of the crusades as a series of armies marching to war in the East. The reality is otherwise. Two separate movements made up the crusades.
First the conquest, the invasion of the East by our forefathers who founded a kingdom there. With this movement the first volume, Iron Men and Saints , deals. The second movement began with the rousing of the Moslem powers which brought about the hundred-year struggle for supremacy that spread from East to West. With this phase the present volume, The Flame of Islam , is concerned.
These two phases of the crusades are different in nature. The first was a mass movement, a march of inspired multitudes.
The second was a world conflict in which individual leaders arose to take command on both sides. And these leaders, from Saladin to De Molay, the last master of the Templars, are fully revealed to us by the chronicles and the letters of their day. They shaped, by their efforts and sacrifices, the beginnings of the modern world. When the Sun shall be folded up , and when the stars shall fall.
