Steven Northover’s Reviews > The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land > Status Update

Jerusalem captured. 3,000 to 10,000 Muslims and Jews killed. 1st Crusade ends. Most crusaders returned home. No coordinated Islamic response. No Islamic counterattack.

Ten wasted months.

The failed People's Crusade. European leaders of the First Crusade. The way to Constatinople.

Schisms in Islam. Urban II calls for an armed pilgrimage to defend the Greek Christians in Byzantium and to the Gates of Jerusalem.

Early Muslim History. Mecca. Medina. Damascus. Baghdad.

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