A great experience

I loved how this book was mostly about laying out the facts with little bias. the narration is amazing as well as the stories being narrated and how the author presents historical facts in a very thrilling and exciting way.
I definitely recommend this book to all the history junkies like me out there even if you're not interested in the crusades per say you'll enjoy this.

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Extraordinary story

Jones pulled together a most complex history spanning centuries and continents and produces a tour de force. Very well read. My only reservation is that with history books being read, one finds it hard to keep track of the very many characters!

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The Religious War

An good book, if you're into history you'll love this, well read and attention grabbing, accessible history. Recommended!

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Very Interesting

A lot of information to take in ,well read pity I can't remember all I've listened to.

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audible version.

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Dan reads very well and when an author reads their book it's a winner.

I'm new to looking at the Crusades and overall this was an excellent dive into a bygone era.

The barbaric happenings are the lingering after thought stay with me here, as thousands lay slain in the wake of what happens time and again throughtout this fairly lengthy reading.

As it traverses several centuries it becomes a little difficult to retain the names.

As often is the case with history it is also difficult to get an intimate look at the cast and their true personalites.

Obviously a well reasearched take on the Crusades - it must be quite the undertaking to write such a book.

I'll likely delve further into the subject and listen to this again to digest more from it.

As someone who is new to the subject - i found the book quite accessible in it's language and presentation ' overall very interesting.

So yesss worthwhile.

thank you.

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dan Jones on point as usual

Can't really say much other then as usual Dan Jones comes with another solid narrative. a good way to learn about the crusades for those who don't know much. I don't personally know much about the crusades but I know his work on the war of the Roses is solid and fair and so I have faith in his work on this subject.

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Very good

As I have said in a number of reviews now: classic Dan Jones. Solid story, good narration, very interesting. Needs to be listened to alongside his book on the Templars, as he, I assume not wanting to repeat himself, leaves out detail which I suspect he wouldn’t have had he not already published it in Templars. Odd diversion to Henry Bolingbroke at the end which leads somewhere only tenuously - felt as though he’d forgotten which of his books he was writing for a chapter! Small defect in a solid book. Bringing us up to the discovery of the Americas and then to the modern world was a nice and very interesting touch. Not Dan Jones best work, but that is only an endorsement of his other work. I’d highly recommend this book.

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Entertaining and instructive

My daughter is studying the Crusades so I thought it would be helpful to gen up. I wanted a readable account of this period and I identified 'Crusaders: An Epic History Of The Wars For The Holy Lands'. This is the first book I have read by Dan Jones, but not the last.

I was ignorant about much of what had taken place during nearly 200 years of very bloody history - and what a fascinating period it is. 'Crusaders: An Epic History Of The Wars For The Holy Lands' provides a perfect whistlestop tour and is also, somewhat suprisingly, quite the page turner.

From Pope Urban's initial call to defend Christians in Constantinople, I was amazed to discover how broad the geographical and religious definition became of what constituted a crusade. Anyone could purge their sins by spilling the blood of anyone identified as others, even fellow Christians or those not paying their tithes.

'Crusaders: An Epic History Of The Wars For The Holy Lands' is clearly impeccably researched and yet the scholarship does not slow down a thoroughly entertaining account peopled by colourful historical characters of all genders and faiths.

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Comprehensive

The narrator / author does an excellent job in delivering a comprehensive history of the crusades in chronological order.

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outstanding

very good informative book, put in a way of a slight story but with alot of factual relevance.

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