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A major work of history and the first trade book published on the subject of the crusade of 1204, which went so catastrophically wrong.
Synopsis
In April 1204, the armies of Western Christendom wrote another bloodstained chapter in the history of holy war. Two years earlier, aflame with religious zeal, the Fourth Crusade set out to free Jerusalem from the grip of Islam.