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The Crusades
- The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
- Lu par : Derek Perkins
- Durée : 25 h et 32 min
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The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge - a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker) - covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, listenable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history. From Richard the Lionheart to the mighty Saladin, from the emperors of Byzantium to the Knights Templar, Asbridge's book is a magnificent epic of holy war between the Christian and Islamic worlds, full of adventure, intrigue, and sweeping grandeur.
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Global4 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars
- Mario D
- 20/09/2023
A great history books on the Crusades
I was looking for a book that allowed me to brush up on the history of the Crusades. This clearly hit the spot. As other commentators mentioned some elements could be developed more in depth such as non-Middle Eastern Crusades or warfare equipment. And it couldn't hurt to have a map at the ready when listening for the first time.
Otherwise, the author really paints a vivid picture of a complex political landscape, both on the Crusaders and Muslim sides. This is what the book mostly is about: politics and warfare as its continuation. As announced in the introduction, the book tries to more details about the Muslim side, to avoid describing the Muslim forces as a monolithic ensemble.
Regarding the "pro-Muslim" and "anti-Bush" comments, I feel this was a bit unfair to the author. He often depicts leaders's manipulations and warfare horrors coming from both sides during this series of conflicts. The final section is not about President G.W. Bush only, but about what the Crusades turned into for both Western and Eastern cultures and how the term was used for propaganda on both sides during the early 2000's.
All in all, a solid history book to obtain a "big picture" kind of view on the subject, and the narrator is doing a great job. Would recommend it to anyone interested in the topic without being a specialist.
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Global4 out of 5 stars
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- Tad Davis
- 04/10/2016
Comprehensive
There are a few topics that get short shrift in Asbridge's account, like the Albigensien Crusade and the People's Crusade. But if you want a comprehensive history of the wars fought in the Middle East, he's your guy. Asbridge writes with great narrative pace without sacrificing detail; he clarifies both the complex political history of Outremer and the moment-by-moment action of the great battles and sieges. The story is filled with great personalities - Saladin, Richard Lionheart, the sad Louis King of France, the brutal Baybars. A final chapter reflects on how the crusades have been used as reference points in later history. Derek Perkins' reading is brisk and interesting.
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Global3 out of 5 stars
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- J. Newhouse
- 22/11/2017
Very good, but...
Performance is superb and research, storytelling, and putting it all together are very well done. Opened my eyes to a new viewpoint on pre-crusades and arguments on whether or not Muslim aggression sparked the crusades. Didn’t really care for the ending. Author felt he needed to do a little Bush bashing. He always strives to give context to Islamic actions, but isn’t willing to be that generous for contemporary Western actions. Should’ve and could’ve just left that whole part out.
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- T. Anderson
- 24/09/2016
Learned more from this than in the past 60 years.
This book taught me more than just about any other historical piece I have read. It manages to masterfully put the Crusades in a format that shows the personalities on both sides that created the political conditions that fueled the hundred years of violence between two competing religions, philosophies and political systems for dominance of Palestine and its religious sites, holy to both sides.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 21/04/2019
Blatant Bias
Anti-European bias is plain with unnecessary excerpts about the Crusaders, while painting Islam as flawless.
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- 54mm Napoleonics
- 27/02/2018
Interesting Biased Account
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
No.
What was most disappointing about Thomas Asbridge’s story?
It was a "story". It was an almost fictionalized account of the Crusades. It is obvious Asbridge is a Muslim sympathizer and nigh unto apologist, suffering from modern political correctness in completely ignoring the Historically documentable muslim aggression and blatantly misleads the Reader about the of battles instigated by the Muslims from Spain to Damascus on land and sea (including raids for slaves in mainland Europe). This a verbose, useless work suitable only for those knowledgeable in the period so as to know exactly where the errors, omissions, deceptions, inaccuracies, and bias lie.
Have you listened to any of Derek Perkins’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Excellent performance.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Great disappoint with a bit of anger for the blatant one-sided, Islamocentric bias and lack of Scholarship.
Any additional comments?
AVOID this book.
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Global4 out of 5 stars
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- Ryan Hobbs
- 27/03/2017
Solid and objective history with minor innacuracie
Really good, with well researched and objective content. However, there are a few small problems. The author gets the characteristics of European arms and armor completely wrong. He says that mail was very poor armor, when in fact it is very effective, taking tremendously powerful hits and keeping the wearer safe. His view of European swords is also wrong, viewing them as crowbars rather than the agile weapons they truly are. This shows a disturbing lack of personal research of the primary sources. All one has to do is read contemporary accounts and handle accurate reproductions to know how wrong this segment was.
Also, the author consistently mentions different units of currency throughout the book but with no comparison of the currency or what a unit of the currency was worth. This information might be in the physical book.
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- Rick
- 08/09/2016
A Thorough Look
A very interesting listen. Nice job connecting the history of the Crusades with other events going on, both at the time of the Crusades as well as since.
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- Alnico Cunife
- 20/05/2018
Get an old map
I really enjoyed this book!. I did need an old (Time/year specific) map to really understand where the countries/cities were and their relationships to where people traveled. The first few hours of listening were a little difficult as the names were 'new" to my ears. After reviewing a map and understanding the names the book became a GREAT listen. Understanding who and why from most sides of 200+ years of Duking (pun intended) it out. We really never learn from the past, just relive it thinking we are better and smarter. I am glad I did not live beck then as life was very much harder than listening to true stories on a cruise ship.
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- buttercup
- 14/04/2018
not objective history
This book is anti-western revisionist history. The author of this book clearly picked a favorite side and did not tell the history of the age of battle in a subjective way
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- Ethan
- 30/11/2017
Informative but vague on details.
Great if you want a series of events with a timeline but lacks in depth events and detail. I also felt the author was bias in his opinions on certain events against the Latin crusaders. It came off more as a history and evolution of Islam and the Middle East during the crusades rather than a History of the Crusades.
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- Marc Dierckx
- 09/02/2018
Cloaked in a coat of religion
Even when every occidental warrior was wearing the sign of the cross on
his/her coat, religion was but a thin coating for the majority of the
common warriors who largely pursued their personal agendas of freedom,
lust for adventure, sexual predation and riches whereas their
leaders took the battle motivation to advance their own power
schemes. In retrospect - peering through the mist of times - all
participants loose their individuality and deviations from the norm
and are associated to their stereotypes: noble or not, Christian or
Muslim, aggressor or victim, etc. This seems to be the message
that resonates with every additional drop of detail in this well
crafted book. The claim of "authoritative" is Utopian as every new
discovery puts a once believed truth in perspective, but on the
whole the book remains an interesting read and a useful suggestion to
all individuals who try to create story 2.0 of this unnecessary
bloody history.
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- WEKA
- 27/09/2018
Very concise but very well written book
This is a very good book on the Crusades. I found it a very concise but at the same time exciting book on middle eastern medieval history.
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