Crusades

Asbridge cant help but tell a ripping yarn, often breezily dramatic, whipping the narrative along The TimesA superb and definitive one-volume account of the Crusades, the impact of which still resonates to this day. In the eleventh century, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing possession of Jerusalem, a cit...