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...Friday, at three in the afternoon, the day and hour of the Passion, Godfrey of Bouillon stood victorious on the walls of Jerusalem . . . After 70,000 Moslems had been put to the sword, and the harmless Jews had been burnt in their synagogue . .. the bloody victors ... ascended the Hill of Calvary, amidst the loud anthems of the clergy; kissed the stone which had covered the Saviour of the world; and bedewed with tears of joy and penitence the monument of their redemption...
...Thus Historian Edward Gibbon describes one of the most momentous episodes in the history of Christendom-the capture by the Crusaders of Jerusalem. In Ride Home Tomorrow, his first novel to appear in the U.S., Britain's Evan John resumes the bloody story nearly a hundred years later (the close of the 12th Century), when Sultan Saladin unified the scattered Moslems and slowly crushed the beleaguered "kingdom which the Crusaders had established in Jerusalem...
...feels guilty about it and "gets his assimilationist urge horribly mixed up with the fiercer kind of Zionism ... No one would be more astonished or upset than the American Zionist if out of Zion were really to come forth the Law and Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He hopes that out of Zion will come forth good Rotarian Israelites and Hebrew-speaking hot-dog sellers...
Waugh sets himself to tell the tale of saint Helena--the mother of the Emperor Constantine--who lived in the third and fourth centuries AD, and who, according to legend, discovered the True Cross in Jerusalem. The story naturally enough concerns itself mainly with the moral and religious background of the times...
...even worse case of this indiscriminate satire occurs at the climax of the book, when Helena has a vision of where the Cross is hidden in Jerusalem. If the book and the story are to have any meaning, this should be a moving scene. But no. The Empress Helena, Salut Helena, is led to the Cross by an incense merchant who speaks like this: I'm in incense, see. There's no finer connection. All the leading shrines are on my book. They know I handle the right stuff. Buy it myself in Arabls, ship it myself. Besides, they...