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Book Reviews by subject:
Crusades

February 1983 Issue

Mary Clive

Congenial Company

Medieval Travellers: The Rich and Restless

By Margaret Wade Labarge

April 2019 Issue

Robert Irwin

A Jihadist & a Gentleman

The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin

By Jonathan Phillips

September 2018 Issue

Jonathan Sumption

Did They Spit on the Cross?

The Persecution of the Templars: Scandal, Torture, Trial

By Alain Demurger (Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan)

June 2018 Issue

Christopher Tyerman

Occupational Hazards

The Siege of Acre, 1189–1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusade

By John D Hosler

September 2015 Issue

Robert Irwin

Onward Christian Administrators

How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the Middle Ages

By Christopher Tyerman

June 2003 Issue

Hazhir Teimourian

Was It Every Right?

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror

By Bernard Lewis

Infidels: The Conflict Between Christendom and Islam, 638-2002

By Andrew Wheatcroft

July 2003 Issue

John Adamson

The Last Crusade

Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto 1571

By Hugh Bicheno, Norman Stone (foreword)

April 2004 Issue

Allan Massie

The Cross and the Crescent

The First Crusade: A New History

By Thomas Asbridge

The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople

By Jonathan Phillips

Leanda de Lisle

Mice, Locusts & Sodomy

Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem

By Sharan Newman

September 2012 Issue

Robert Irwin

Church Militant

The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c 1070–1309

By Jonathan Riley-Smith

December 2012 Issue

Peter Frankopan

Cities of God

The Crusader States

By Malcolm Barber