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Khalid ibn al-Walid: The Sword of God Who Won Every Battle and Led the Conquests That Shook Two Empires
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Series: Greatest Warlords of All Time, Book 7
IslamArabian PeninsulaGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryMilitary Strategy
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ISBN13: 9798198113497
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 22 2026
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 22 2026
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He fought over 100 battles. He never lost a single one.
He broke nine swords in one afternoon. He drowned 70,000 soldiers by weaponizing a river upstream. He sent 200,000 Roman soldiers off a cliff. And when the wars finally ended, he died quietly in a bed, wishing he had not.
This is the true story of Khalid ibn al-Walid, the Sword of God. West Point, Sandhurst, and the U.S. Army War College still study his battles today. Not out of tradition. Out of necessity. Because what he did on those battlefields fourteen centuries ago still cannot be fully explained.
He broke nine swords in one afternoon. He drowned 70,000 soldiers by weaponizing a river upstream. He sent 200,000 Roman soldiers off a cliff. And when the wars finally ended, he died quietly in a bed, wishing he had not.
This is the true story of Khalid ibn al-Walid, the Sword of God. West Point, Sandhurst, and the U.S. Army War College still study his battles today. Not out of tradition. Out of necessity. Because what he did on those battlefields fourteen centuries ago still cannot be fully explained.
He began as Islam's most dangerous enemy. He ended as its greatest military champion. He crossed a desert no army had ever survived. He took Damascus in a single night by climbing an eleven-meter wall in darkness. He ended 700 years of Roman authority in six days by pushing an entire empire off a cliff he had been driving it toward since the battle began.
What you are about to discover will change how you see military history, faith, and what one human being is truly capable of.
Inside these pages, you will find the full story: the tactics, the impossible gambles, the faith that held it all together, and the moment this undefeated general was ordered to lay down his sword and simply obeyed.
If you love military history, forgotten legends, or simply great human stories told with honesty and depth, this book was written for you.
What you are about to discover will change how you see military history, faith, and what one human being is truly capable of.
Inside these pages, you will find the full story: the tactics, the impossible gambles, the faith that held it all together, and the moment this undefeated general was ordered to lay down his sword and simply obeyed.
If you love military history, forgotten legends, or simply great human stories told with honesty and depth, this book was written for you.
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