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There is actually rather less about the fall of Acre in this booklet than you might think, but that might be a commentary on the locality's relative irrelevance by 1291. What this book really deals with is the Mameluke state's wider diplomacy and strategy, as they cleaned up assorted loose ends in their greater conflict with their Mongol adversaries. The ongoing parallel war between Italian Angevins and Aragon was the main action in Christendom. Though the Christian "military" orders arguably never recovered their prestige in the wake of this defeat and the Mameluke ascendance accelerated the diminution of Christian culture in the Levant and sub-Saharan Africa. As this work is almost a generation old there is a certain grim irony in reading about the opportunities for tourism in the region. ( )