The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan #literature and the darkness within us

and the darkness within us all

both great and small

they do their best to ignore each other

Edition: 1st Edition

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The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan #literature and the darkness within usFROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SILK ROADS 'Filled with Byzantine intrigue, in every sense this book is important, compellingly revisionist and impressive in its scholarly use of totally fresh sources' Simon Sebag Montefiore In 1096, an expedition of extraordinary scale and ambition set off from Western Europe on a mass pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Three years later, after a journey which saw acute hardship, the most severe dangers and