The best-selling author of The Templars tells the story of the Crusades with page-turning brio allied to scholarly insight.
Dan Jones is a historian, broadcaster and award-winning journalist. His books, including The Plantagenets, Magna Carta, The Templars and The Colour of Time (with Marina Amaral), have sold more than one million copies worldwide. He has written and hosted dozens of TV shows including the acclaimed Netflix/Channel 5 series, Secrets of Great British Castles. His writing has appeared in newspapers and magazines including the London Evening Standard, the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, GQ and The Spectator.
Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and
thrilling history of the crusades is one of the best... Jones is
exceptionally good at giving evocative snapshots of medieval life,
sometimes poignant, sometimes pure Monty Python'
*Sunday Times*
This is rollercoaster history... Dan Jones has a nose for the
dramatic, disgusting and bizarre... Every page of his extraordinary
book provides vivid evidence of the Crusades' continuing ability to
mesmerise'
*The Times*
A powerful story brilliantly told. Dan Jones writes with pace, wit
and insight
*Helen Castor*
A fresh and vibrant account of a conflict that raged across
medieval centuries
*Jonathan Phillips*
Compelling... Jones is adept at teasing out the array of
motivations that propelled the crusaders on an arduous, often
harrowing, journey to an uncertain, violent destination... An
avowedly pluralist account in which equal weight is given to the
experiences of Christians and Muslims... Jones has written an epic
of his own here, as complex as it is compelling'
*Prospect*
Dan Jones has 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
*Edinburgh Reporter*
The master of the Middle Ages turns his attention to the compelling
saga of religious conflict
*Radio Times*
Crusaders excels not only in narrating this complex history in such
a readable and immersive manner, but also in setting events in
their wider contexts... Narratives of medieval knights in combat
and conquest can run the risk of romanticising their actions
through efforts to spark further interest from the reader, but
Jones's treatement of the source material is measured under the
engaging prose. Jones has drawn together a compelling work that is
weighty in pages but always highly readable'
*All About History*
Dan Jones writes every history book as through it were a Netflix
drama
*Yorkshire Post.*
His tale is steeped in scholarly research and lively writing. Were
it not for the violence inherent to his subject matter, you might
call it divine
*Christian Science Monitor.*
A distinct new perspective... A fantastic, scholarly book...
Masterfully told and makes for a gripping read. A must for anyone
with an interest in the period'
*Pennant*
[Jones] offers a 'tableau history' – a series of stories with
wonderfully bizarre characters on both sides. It's impossible to be
cynical about Jones the historian; he's enormously prolific, yet
each book is impressively researched and beautifully written. He's
a passionate writer, a rumbustious knight who loves his own
literary crusade
*The Times*
Bloody battles and epic sieges abound in this energetic history of
the Crusades, a series of adventures that still has ramifications
today
*Mail on Sunday*
Typically breezy and well-paced... Jones sets out to entertain as
well as inform, covering a great deal of ground'
*Financial Times*
The Crusades is a challenging era for the novice but it is brought
thrillingly to life in this imaginative history from the
broadcaster and best-selling author... Jones concludes with a
timely reminder of the effect the period still has on our
world'
*Choice Magazine*
Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: a dramatic history of the
wars for the Holy Lands that brings the Crusades to fresh and
compelling life
*Sunday Times*
A balanced view... Jones sticks to a strict academic approach. He
mixes recitations of key events and personages with
storytelling'
*Catholic Universe*
Skilfully balancing information and entertainment
*The Week*
Jones has assembled a panoramic, detailed and readable account of a
vast sweep of history that must have taken a staggering amount of
work
*BookBrunch*
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