The Crusades
The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
by Thomas Asbridge · first published 2010
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From a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume historyof the brutal struggle for the Holy Land.Nine hundred years ago, 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 city revered by both faiths. Over the two hundred years that followed, Islam and Christianity—both firm in the belief that they were at God's work—fought for dominion of the Holy Land, clashing in a succession of chillingly brutal wars: the
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_The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land_ by Thomas Asbridge. A modern scholarly and critical look at one of the most fascinating times in human history that even beginners can understand.
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