Penguin Books Australia

'I will not for any price leave the kingdom of Jerusalem to be lost, since I came to conquer and defend it'

The story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East is one of the most extraordinary of all epics. The crusaders' stunning initial success started a sequence of great Crusades, each with its own story that fundamentally shaped the Christian and Muslim worlds for two centuries, until the last Crusader castles were finally...