The Crusader Storm

<p><b>A spectacular new panoramic history of the Crusades. </b><br><br>From their foundation in 1097 to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem almost a century later, the Crusader States transformed the Middle Eastern world. In an era shaped by many conflicts, this was not simply a war between Christianity and Islam, but an epic contest among multiple rival empires, dynasties and cultures.<br><br><i>The Crusader Storm</i> unfolds through a kaleidoscope of perspectives: a Byzantine renegade, a crusader princess, a Turkish matriarch, a young Arab nobleman, a Syriac archbishop, Saladin's leading commander and the vizier of Egypt. Between them, information, technologies and ideas - as well as weapons - crossed borders at astonishing speed as their societies fought, allied and traded. Their entangled fates reshaped not only the Middle East, but the medieval world itself.<br><br>Drawing on sources from Arabic, Greek, Syriac, Armenian, Latin and Hebrew traditions, Nicholas Morton's enthralling panorama transforms our understanding of the Crusades - revealing them not as a single clash of faiths, but as a dynamic era of war, commerce, innovation and exchange that defined the course of history.<br><br><b>PRAISE FOR <i>THE MONGOL STORM</i>:</b><br><br> 'Brain-stretching . . . Pulsating . . . Irresistible' <br> <b><i>SUNDAY TIMES</i></b><br><br> 'Deeply researched and elegantly written - essential reading' <br> <b>DAN JONES</b><br><br> 'Erudite . . . Thrilling and much-needed' <br> <b><i>DAILY TELEGRAPH</i></b><br><br> 'Revelatory, lively and stocked with colourful personalities'<br> <b><i>LITERARY REVIEW</i></b></p>