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The Last Apocalypse

by James Reston Jr. · 1998

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An enthralling popular history of how the threatened Christian kingdoms of Europe converted, conquered, and slaughtered their way to dominance at the turn of the last millennium. of photos.

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adult
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medium · 336 pages

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