Saladin: Sultan of the Desert

Saladin is remembered as the conqueror who retook Jerusalem and the rival even his enemies learned to admire. But no legend can explain the man who had to bind Egypt and Syria together, survive defeat, bargain with rivals, discipline allies, and decide what victory would cost the conquered. Beginning on the waterless hills of Hattin and returning to the unsettled night of Saladin's birth, this nar...