4to. 400 pp., colour frontis., profusely illustrated in b/w & colour illus., 6 maps, pictorial hard back binding, endpaper illus, biblio, index, very good condition, CLB Publishing, printed and bound in Portugal, reprint, 1997.

Synopsis

In 1905, Pope Urban II released an avalanche of princes, knights and followers who, with shouts of “God wills it”, descended on the Arab world, itself the heir to an ancient and sophisticated civilisation. Five hundred years of conflict were to follow. This book recreates the glorious victories and gruesome defeats on both sides, through eyewitness accounts of the traumatic clashes between two opposing faiths.
A collection of eye-witness accounts, with introductions and notes by the editor, arranged in 8 chapters: The Muslim world before 1096; The first Crusade 1096-1099; The second Crusade 1147-1149; The third Crusade 1189-1192; The fourth Crusade 1202-1204; The 13th century Crusades; The last Crusades; The Mediterranean after 1453.