The Fourth Crusade 1202-04: The Betrayal of Byzantium

by Christa Hook and David Nicolle

The Fourth Crusade was the first and most famous of the 'diverted' crusades, that is, ones diverted from their originally intended target. It was also the first to be directed against a fellow Christian, though Orthodox, state. Initially preached (from 1198 onwards) as a campaign against Ayyubid Egypt, which was correctly seen as the most potent threat to the Latin or 'Crusader' Kingdom of Jerusalem, its first Christian target was the city of Zadar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849083193
• ISBN13: 9781849083195
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.3" x 9.7"