From the bestselling author of The Templars. Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter Dan Joness tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades is one of the best SUNDAY TIMES. A powerful story brilliantly told. Dan Jones writes with pace, wit and insight HELEN CASTOR. A fresh and vibrant account of a conflict that raged across medieval centuries JONATHAN PHILLIPS. Dan Jones, bestselling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Crusades the sequence of religious wars fought between the late eleventh century and late medieval periods, in which armies from European Christian states attempted to wrest the Holy Land from Islamic rule, and which have left an enduring imprint on relations between the Muslim world and the West. From the preaching of the First Crusade by Pope Urban II in 1095 to the loss of the last crusader outpost in the Levant in 130203, and from the taking of Jerusalem from the Fatimids in 1099 to the fall of Acre to the Mamluks in 1291, Crusaders tells a tale soaked in Islamic, Christian and Jewish blood, peopled by extraordinary characters, and characterised by both low ambition and high principle. Dan Jones is a master of popular narrative history, with the priceless ability to write pageturning narrative history underpinned by authoritative scholarship. Never before has the era of the Crusades been depicted in such bright and striking colours, or their story told with such gusto. PRAISE FOR THE TEMPLARS A fresh, muscular...

Binding: Paperback;512 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing plc; Classification: HB; Weight: 572 g; Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 42

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