A triumph of prose-writing, argument and research, Steven Runciman’s ‘A History of the Crusades’ is an unimprovable account of events which changed the world and which still resonate today. In this first volume he tells the story of the First Crusade – from its unlikely beginnings to the horrors of the siege of Jerusalem and the carving out of aggressive new western European states on the edge of the Eastern Mediterranean.

Author Steven Runciman Published by Penguin Classics ISBN 9780141985503 EAN 9780141985503 Bic Code Cover Paperback