The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

by Thomas Asbridge

Book Overview

From a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume history of 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060787295
• ISBN13: 9780060787295
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 784 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"