A one-volume history of the Crusades to the Holy Land - telling this fascinating and bloody story from both Christian and Muslim perspectives for the first time.

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

History

Thomas Asbridge

Europe

Harpercollins

The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land

Simon&Schuster

<p>The greatest knight of Asbridges compelling biography is William Marshal (1147-1219), a landless younger son, but peerless warrior, who rose through the ranks to serve at the right hand of five English monarchs, including Richard I and King John.</p>

Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshall, the Power Behind Five English Thrones.

Greatest Knight

Simon Schuster(uk)

<p>Walter the Chancellor's vivid first-hand account of the wars between the Muslims and the principality of Antioch in the early 12th century describes a less well-known period in the history of the Crusades, and provides a useful counterpart to the usual focus on Jerusalem. It is here presented for the first time in English, along with a selection of comparative sources and an important introduction assessing the work's place in the historiography of the Crusader states, and analysing the military campaigns it details. As a highly-placed Antiochene official, Walter was able to write the most authoritative account of the principality's fortunes and internal workings, and his book also sheds light on the relationship between Latin settlement in the Levant and contemporary Western perceptions of Islam and Eastern Christianity.</p>

Walter the Chancellor’s The Antiochene Wars: A Translation and Commentary (Crusade Texts in Translation)

Thomas S. Asbridge

Susan Edgington

Africa

Routledge

The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power behind Five English Thrones

The War for the Holy Land (Chinese Edition)

Democracy and Construction Publishing House

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