The CrusadesFrom a renowned historian who writes with \"maximum vividness\" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single volume military 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, Islam and

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