Crusades


The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
The First Crusade: A New History
God's War: A New History of the Crusades
A History of the Crusades, Volume 1: The First Crusade and the Foundations of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
A History of the Crusades, Vol. II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade
Chronicles of the Crusades (Penguin Classics)
God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades
A History of the Crusades, Vol. III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades
The New Concise History of the Crusades
The Crusades: A Short History
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
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Kingdom of Jordan
71 books — 2 voters

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3rd Crusade
8 books — 1 voter
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The Christian Bible for Atheists
19 books — 4 voters

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Heresy
106 books — 3 voters

There is much in Judeo-Christian doctrine and history that can be used to support a peace system, but it is so far a minor current. The main stream has adopted the violent, dominator mode of late Palestinian Judaism with its foundation in Old Testament holy war. It is a somber fact of history that in the name of Christ men have murdered and condoned murder, tortured women and children, slaughtered in war, and executed each other without remorse. The Crusaders saw Jesus in terms of their own soci ...more
Kent D. Shifferd, From War to Peace: A Guide to the Next Hundred Years

Herman Melville
For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites by the way. Had they been strictly held to their one final and romantic object—that final and romantic object, too many would have turned from in disgust.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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