James Waterson was born into a London family of Royal Marines and Paratroopers. Fatherly advice however steered him away from a military career and into academia and teaching.He is a graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and received his Masters degree from Dundee University.He worked and taught in the United States and China for a number of years and now divides his time between the Middle East and Italy whilst trying to makes ends meet.The Ismaili Assassins is his second book and grew out of his travels in Iran. His first book, The Knights of Islam, a history of the slave soldiers of Islam, was published in 2007 by Greenhill Books.He continues to work at producing a life of the Crusader Bohemond of Taranto but knows it will never be finished.
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James Waterson: Defending Heaven
‘;A very readable account of the protracted and ultimately unsuccessful efforts of the Song, Xia, and Jin dynasties to defend China from the Mongols.’Strategy Page Defending Heaven brings together, f …
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James Waterson: Defending Heaven
“A very readable account of the protracted and ultimately unsuccessful efforts of the Song, Xia, and Jin dynasties to defend China from the Mongols.”—Strategy Page Defending H …
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James Waterson: Crusades in 100 Objects
For half a millennium, throughout almost the entire medieval period, the Catholic church sanctioned military campaigns against what it perceived as its enemies. The rise of Islam and its spread acros …
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Waterson James Waterson & Man John Man: Knights of Islam
‘The author brings together a wealth of information which has, until now, only been available in highly specialized academic journals and scholarly books’ – David Nicolle’An astonis …
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Waterson James Waterson & Man John Man: Knights of Islam
‘The author brings together a wealth of information which has, until now, only been available in highly specialized academic journals and scholarly books’ – David Nicolle’An astonis …
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€9.00