This book features the most authoritative accounts available of the Holy Wars: Villehardouin's Conquest of Constantinople and Joinville's Chronicle of the Crusade of St. Lewis. The veteran crusaders provide engrossing narratives and firsthand testimony of terrifying battles as well as the religious and political fervor that sparked the two hundred-year campaign. Reprint of Memoirs of the Crusades, J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., London, 1908.
Castles and Warfare in the Middle Ages by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, M. Macdermott Profusely illustrated, detailed descriptions of dungeons, keeps, battlements, and drawbridges, plus artillery, trenches, battering rams, more. "Will enthrall anyone interested in architecture, military, or medieval history." — History in Review.