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The Crusader Storm

A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East
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The Crusader Storm

By: Nicholas Morton
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A spectacular new panoramic history of the Crusades.

From their foundation in 1097 to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem almost a century later, the Crusader States transformed the Middle Eastern world. In an era shaped by many conflicts, this was not simply a war between Christianity and Islam, but an epic contest among multiple rival empires, dynasties and cultures.

The Crusader Storm unfolds through a kaleidoscope of perspectives: a Byzantine renegade, a crusader princess, a Turkish matriarch, a young Arab nobleman, a Syriac archbishop, Saladin's leading commander and the vizier of Egypt. Between them, information, technologies and ideas - as well as weapons - crossed borders at astonishing speed as their societies fought, allied and traded. Their entangled fates reshaped not only the Middle East, but the medieval world itself.

Drawing on sources from Arabic, Greek, Syriac, Armenian, Latin and Hebrew traditions, Nicholas Morton's enthralling panorama transforms our understanding of the Crusades - revealing them not as a single clash of faiths, but as a dynamic era of war, commerce, innovation and exchange that defined the course of history.

PRAISE FOR THE MONGOL STORM:

'Brain-stretching . . . Pulsating . . . Irresistible'
SUNDAY TIMES

'Deeply researched and elegantly written - essential reading'
DAN JONES

'Erudite . . . Thrilling and much-needed'
DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Revelatory, lively and stocked with colourful personalities'
LITERARY REVIEW©2026 Nicholas Morton Europe Medieval Middle East Military Wars & Conflicts

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Nicholas Morton is a prolific and distinguished scholar of the Crusades whose work continues to reflect a sustained commitment to bringing the history of the medieval world to a broader readership (Mohamad El-Merheb)
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