Books by Steven Runciman
A History of the Crusades II
Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics
A History Of The Crusades Iii
This final volume of the trilogy begins with the glamorous Third Crusade and ends with the ruinous collapse of the crusader states and the degeneration of their ideals, which reached its nadir in the tragic destruction of Byzantium.
A History Of The Crusades I
An enthralling work of grand historical narrative, Steven Runciman's A History of the Crusades overturned the traditional view of the Crusades as a romantic Christian adventure, and instead shifted the focus of the story to the East.