Ian Garrick-Mason

The crusaders were not such incompetent zealots after all

Steve Tibble portrays them not only as brave missionary knights with a Christian mission, but as strategic planners too

After decades of patient effort, the crusaders took Ascalon in 1153. The siege, depicted in a French miniature of 1490 [Alamy]
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  • The Crusader Strategy: Defending the Holy Land

    Steve Tibble

    Yale, pp. 353, £25

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