Before Verdun... before Stalingrad... there was the siege of Acre.

The year is 1191. Jerusalem has fallen to Saladin and the Saracens. Unjustly accused of murder, a monk named Roger flees his abbey and joins the crusade of Richard the Lionheart.

In the Holy Land, Roger takes part in the greatest military undertaking of the Middle Ages -- the siege of Acre. Acre is a hell on earth, where funeral masses and burials go on around the clock, where men die of battle and disease and starvation, where they are reduced to eating grass and old shoes -- and sometimes each other.

Roger rises through the ranks to become commander of a company known as the Death's Heads. He loses one love and finds another, and he suffers a crisis of faith as he watches the huge crusading army being destroyed while the dream of freeing Jerusalem seems as far away as ever.

Death's Head is not only Roger's story. It is the story of Richard the Lionheart and Saladin, the two greatest commanders of the age, and their rivalry. It is a story of war and love and the faith that enables ordinary men to perform extraordinary deeds.

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