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by John France (Author) "The capture of Jerusalem on 15 July 1099 was of enormous importance in the history of the Christian West and the Orthodox and Islamic East..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 444 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press; New Ed edition (12 Dec 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0521589878
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521589871
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.4 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 73,897 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #48 in  Books > History > World History > 501-1500
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‘… a major contribution … France has done his field work as well as reading the chronicles, travelling the route of the First Crusade and visiting the main battlefields … The book shows that scrupulously researched and intelligently written military history can shed light on many aspects of the First Crusade, and can be a delight to read in the process.’ Hugh Kennedy, The Times Literary Supplement

‘This is a compelling study which … manages to be both scholarly and highly readable; it is even exciting in places. It is an outstanding book that deserves to be a classic text not only on the Crusades, but also on medieval warfare as a whole.’ European Review of History


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The success of the First Crusade, and its capture of Jerusalem in 1099, has been conventionally explained in terms of its ideological and political motivation. This book looks at the First Crusade primarily as a military campaign and asks why it was so successful. Modern writing about the crusade has tended to emphasise the moral dimension and the development of the idea of the crusade, but its fate was ultimately decided on the field of battle. Victory in the East looks at the nature of war at the end of the eleventh century and the military experience of all the contending parties in order to explain its extraordinary success. It is the first such examination, taking into account all other factors but emphasising the military.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and Valuable Account from a Military Perspective, 14 May 2000
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While this is certainly one of the best and most accurate works written about the First Crusade, I am unsure I can go so far as to assert it is the best. It is certainly thorough: the author has visited many of the sites and, where possible, reconstructed the battles in situ. While dedicated to a military perspective, he incorporates many elements, such as the religious and political antecedents, that provide the background necessary to any meaningful understanding of the crusaders' march into Syria and Palestine. As the author has made the effort to include many of the primary sources that to date remain untranslated, the Crusade chroniclers' accounts are more fully represented than say a work such as Peter's "The First Crusade," allowing both the author and the reader to arrive at conclusions based upon a greater comparison and analysis of contemporary sources than is present in many other texts. Further, this is the first work I have come across that points out the significance of contribution made by Byzantine naval support, at least up to and including the seige of Antioch.

As a military history this work is outstanding, marred only by the author's at times inelegant and unclear sentence structure; I suspect his editors at Cambridge did him a disservice. For some, this work may be long on military tactics. Also, the casual reader should be aware that this is primarily a military history, and does not consider comprehensively all the religious and political events that led up and in part inform the First Crusade.

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