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

The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)—covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this  big, ambitious, readable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history. From Richard the Lionheart to the mighty Saladin, from the emperors of Byzantium to the Knights Templar, Asbridge’s book is a magnificent epic of Holy War between the Christian and Islamic worlds, full of adventure, intrigue, and sweeping grandeur.

• The Dark Ages 476-918 A.D.
• The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones
• 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
• A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
• The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
• Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
• The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
• God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades
• The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Saqi Essentials)