The bestselling author of The Templars returns with a new novel. 'Voyages, battles, sieges, and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the Crusades is one of the best,' writes the Sunday Times. 'A powerful story told brilliantly. Dan Jones writes with a sense of urgency, wit, and insight' HELEN CASTOR. 'A fresh and vibrant account of a conflict that raged for centuries in mediaeval Europe.' PHILLIPS, JONATHAN. Dan Jones, best-selling Middle Ages chronicler, focuses on the history of the Crusades, a series of religious wars fought between the late eleventh century and late mediaeval periods in which armies from European Christian states attempted to wrest control of the Holy Land from Islamic rule, and which left an indelible imprint on relations between the Muslim world and the West.