Review: Concise but covers it well; Only about the Crusades, not the related historical events
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2014
When I opened this Kindle version and saw exactly how short it was, I didn't expect much. I was wrong. It was a good, concise version of the entire Crusades. My only frustration is that a quick parenthetical would have been helpful to explain place names and ethnic groups when those names are not the common name today. The author did this periodically, but not with consistency, and strangely, more at the end than anywhere else. Perhaps he wrote the last chapter first?