The Crusades: From Beginning to End - Henry Freeman

The Crusades: From Beginning to End

By Henry Freeman

  • Release Date: 2016-02-15
  • Genre: European History
Score: 4
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Description

The Crusades
Much has been written and much has been omitted when it comes to the Crusades; especially in modern parlance. Many talking heads in recent times have conjured up the specter of the Crusades as if it should be a source of great shame and disgust for Western Civilization. And with even President Obama drawing odd parallels in light of the beheadings of ISIS; many are wondering once again what all of this "Crusades talk" is all about. 

Inside you will read about...
✓ Backing Up Byzantium
✓ All Out Holy War
✓ The Kingdom of Heaven
✓ The King's Crusade
✓ The Self-Defeating Crusade
✓ The Final Crusades
✓ The Post-Crusade World

The Crusades took place over a thousand years ago, and yet we currently live in a modern day world of unspeakable terror. Islamic extremists are disrupting the entire planet, murdering, raping and enslaving everyone they encounter. Committing brutalities on a scale that rivals some of the worst abuses of the dark ages and yet people still point to the Crusades as if it is supposed to mean something. Ok, that's fine. If detractors wish to point their finger and call out history, let's find the truth, and let's find out what really happened.

Reviews

  • Short Stories

    5
    By Lisapookie
    I enjoyed this story I’ve read it before.

  • It’s interesting but very biased

    3
    By presentywriter
    This book is well-written to a certain extent. However, it is also noticeably biased, which limits its ability to present a full picture view of the Crusade wars. The book fails to explore all angles and wrongdoings associated with the Crusades. I also find it lacks sufficient illumination on the real causes that led to these historical conflicts and the reasons behind the unfolding massacres. Was it just because Jerusalem was a holy place or was more to it than that? Anyway, it has some very interesting historically accurate facts so I would suggest to read this book but also other books on crusade wars to get a full picture on what really happened, the light and shadows, and also Why it really happened.

  • Opinionated bot factual or historical

    1
    By yxsin0
    Super biased, author seems to have a lot of hate for Muslims. I wanted to read something interesting about the crusades and learn a little. This ain’t it

  • Interesting & Precise

    5
    By Myke784
    I love how Mr Freeman can explain the all this history in so few words.

  • Terrible

    1
    By McFarlander
    No scholarship here.

  • Gold number

    5
    By guards lie
    I enjoy this book and it’s great to read thx for sharing this with me

  • Who said he was a moron

    5
    By jacob Pasqua
    Your the moron for getting this book you should research for the right book

  • This guy, Christians good Muslims bad

    1
    By Fabbas23
    The Middle East has been invaded for the last 1400 years and calls Muslims violent. Yeah Muslims are violent for defending their homeland. Did y’all know that when Christians took Jerusalem in the first crusade they murdered a whole town of defenseless people. But yeah Muslims are the bad ones. The start of the book he talks about how Muslims spread their faith with violence like Christianity hasn’t done that. Christianity has done that to literally every part of the world.

  • If I could give it negative 2 stars I would

    1
    By A.J Lloyd
    Simply awful, no historical or factual basis. Surprised Apple even gave this a virtual shelf to live on

  • Not good

    1
    By corky6672
    When a writer choses to inject his own awful opinions over history and what actually happened I would rather not read on. History should be matter of fact never opinion.

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