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The Crusades: Iron Men and Saints
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Apr 23, 2015 rated it liked it
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Made it about a third of the way through. Lamb's style is breathless forward motion. This would be interesting if the book wasn't mired in the historiography of the time it was written - focusing on larger than life characters, and almost solely on the Western Europeans. Might be OK for other people, but I couldn't bring myself to enjoy it more than I would a more serious history of the Crusaders. ...more