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

and the darkness within us all

For the first time in history

PaperbackPublication: 23 Aug 2018

But now a troublemaker has arrived and there is rumour of revolt

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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