The First Crusade

'This is one of history's most extraordinary episodes made extraordinarily real. Written by an expert blessed with lucidity and styles … a story that has everything.' The Church Times

'It reads magnificently … as an example of sustained and intelligent narrative it could hardly be bettered. Sir Steven's great achievement was to make a complicated subject appear simple and then to write it up beautifully … No one is likely to surpass Sir Steven's powers of synthesis or the masterly way he writes.' History Today