Crusaders
Dan Jones
Sept 2019 · W.F.Howes Ltd. · Narrated by Dan Jones
4.5star
2 reviewsreport
headphones
Audiobook
16 hr 8 min
Unabridged
family_home
Eligible
info
reportRatings and reviews aren’t verified Learn more
Want a 1 hr 37 min sample? Listen anytime, even offline.
Add
About this audiobook
Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Crusades – the sequence of religious wars fought between the late eleventh century and late medieval periods, in which armies from European Christian states attempted to wrest the Holy Land from Islamic rule, and which have left an enduring imprint on relations between the Muslim world and the West. From the preaching of the First Crusade by Pope Urban II in 1095 to the loss of the last crusader outpost in the Levant in 1302-03, and from the taking of Jerusalem from the Fatimids in 1099 to the fall of Acre to the Mamluks in 1291, Crusaders tells a tale soaked in Islamic, Christian and Jewish blood, peopled by extraordinary characters, and characterised by both low ambition and high principle. Dan Jones is a master of popular narrative history, with the priceless ability to write page-turning narrative history underpinned by authoritative scholarship. Never before has the era of the Crusades been depicted in such bright and striking colours, or their story told with such gusto.
Ratings and reviews
4.5
2 reviews
Joel Taplin
- Flag inappropriate
- Show review history
7 August 2022
This was an epic history. After reading this I realised that my knowledge of the crusades finished after the 4th crusade, and that the story didn't end there.
Rate this audiobook
Tell us what you think.
Listening information
Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can read books purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
