Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse
Jonathan Phillips, Professor of Crusading History, Royal Holloway, University of London, and author ofHoly Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades“Impressive storytelling—Rubenstein carries the reader through this epic with real panache, lucidly conveying the giddying ebb and flow of faith, emotion, politics and brutality that so characterized the First Crusade. A powerfully argued contribution to our understanding of the people and the times of this landmark event.”