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The Crusader Storm
A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East
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‘Bold, vital and urgent . . . Blows the old parochial Western accounts clean away’ SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB A spectacular new panoramic history of the Crusades. From their foundation in 1097 to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem almost a century later, the Crusader States transformed the Middle Eastern...
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See moreThe Crusader Storm traces the rise and fall of the Crusader States from the First Crusade to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem, exploring how diverse cultures collided, coexisted, and reshaped the medieval Middle East. Through the eyes of rulers, rebels, and ordinary people, it reveals a world far more complex than a simple clash of faiths.
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Description
‘Bold, vital and urgent . . . Blows the old parochial Western accounts clean away’ SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB
A spectacular new panoramic history of the Crusades.
From their foundation in 1097 to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem almost a century later, the Crusader States transformed the Middle Eastern world. In an era shaped by many conflicts, this was not simply a war between Christianity and Islam, but an epic contest among multiple rival empires, dynasties and cultures.
The Crusader Storm unfolds through a kaleidoscope of perspectives: a Byzantine renegade, a crusader princess, a Turkish matriarch, a young Arab nobleman, a Syriac archbishop, Saladin's leading commander and the vizier of Egypt. Between them, information, technologies and ideas - as well as weapons - crossed borders at astonishing speed as their societies fought, allied and traded. Their entangled fates reshaped not only the Middle East, but the medieval world itself.
Drawing on sources from Arabic, Greek, Syriac, Armenian, Latin and Hebrew traditions, Nicholas Morton's enthralling panorama transforms our understanding of the Crusades - revealing them not as a single clash of faiths, but as a dynamic era of war, commerce, innovation and exchange that defined the course of history.
PRAISE FOR THE MONGOL STORM:
‘Brain-stretching . . . Pulsating . . . Irresistible’
SUNDAY TIMES
‘Deeply researched and elegantly written - essential reading’
DAN JONES
‘Erudite . . . Thrilling and much-needed’
DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Revelatory, lively and stocked with colourful personalities’
LITERARY REVIEW
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781399818735
Publisher: John Murray Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 June 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Basic Books
Illustration: X25 colour images and x10 B&W map illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 448
About the Author
Nicholas Morton is an associate professor at Nottingham Trent University specialising in the history of the Medieval Middle East, writing extensively on topics including the Crusades, the Mongol Empire and the Seljuk Turks. An award-winning author, his books include The Mongol Storm, which the Sunday Times described as 'a reminder that the best history writing is eminently readable'.
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