- History, Nonfiction, Religion and civilization, Religious aspects
From a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume historyof 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.
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- gravecomic
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- Author
- Thomas Asbridge
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 784
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Limited, Ecco, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060787295
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