People of the First Crusade

By Michael Foss

ISBN: 1-85479-674-7

First published 1997

228 pages

Cover illustration: Detail from The Fall of Acre, Vie et Miracles de St. Louis

Publisher: Michael O’Mara Books Limited

3.5/5 Stars

An interesting view of the crusades from those that took part in it. Relying on close personal accounts from that time – the author uses quotation to tell the story of the journey.

Perhaps lacking the narrative thrust of the Runciman Crusade trilogy it nevertheless shines a new viewpoint on the trials of the first crusaders and how they founded the Kingdom of Jerusalem and other Crusader States (see below).