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Tom Asbridge

The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land

Hay Festival 2010, Wednesday 2 June 2010

In the C11th the Pope’s vast Christian army rampaged through the Muslim world seizing Jerusalem, a city revered by both faiths. The historian balances Jihad and Crusade in his account of the following two centuries’ conflict that still resonates today.