The First Crusade
β Scribed by Asbridge, Thomas
- Book ID
- 106852483
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
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SUMMARY: On the last Tuesday of November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. His words set Christendom afire. Some 100,000 men, from knights to paupers, took up the call--the largest mobilization of manpower since the fall of the Roman Empire. Now, i
βThe scenes of battle and clash of cultures are brilliantly depicted.β Jemahl Evans, author of Becket: Warrior. 1098. The crusader army still stands outside Antioch. Starving. Deserting. An enemy force, led by Kerbogha of Mosul, is days away from relieving the walled city. Bohemond of Taranto calls