Description
Book SynopsisThe gripping story of the First Crusade, as witnessed firsthand
The fall of Jerusalem in 1099 to an army of exhausted and starving western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary events in history?with a legacy that remains controversial more than nine centuries later. This remarkable collection contains firsthand accounts from the knights, religious leaders, and peasants who experienced the First Crusade in all its cruelty and strangeness. Edited with an introduction and notes by one of the foremost experts on the Crusades,
Chronicles of the First Crusadeis a comprehensive look at the climax of Christian fervor and the record of an ultimately futile attempt to implant a European kingdom in an overwhelmingly Muslim world.
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Trade ReviewOf all the modern histories of the crusades it is the shrewdest, the most reliable and the most complete [Praise for
God's War] * The Spectator *
