Veteran British radio broadcaster Billings presents a new biography of Pacradooni Kaloost Vartan (1835-1908) on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the hospital he founded in Nazareth. Son of a p
A revised edition of Billings' attractive history of the Crusades, an offshoot of the BBC Radio 4 series The Cross and the Crescent , which is updated with new archaeological and historical evidence.
In 1095 Pope Urban II granted absolution to anyone who would fight to reclaim the Holy Land. The first Christian crusaders embarked on an unprecedented religious war. While addressing the contribution
