The Story of the Crusades Essay -- Essays Papers

The Story of the CrusadesThe Story of the Crusades is a book that was written in 1963 by Alfred Duggan. The books title tells you what the book is about, the Crusades. The book follows the Western Christians perspective on the 200 year event, from 1095 to 1291. It starts out background signal up the plot (which most good books do), then sets up the plot, and keeps on setting up the plot. The book is actually slow at the beginning, then soft starts to move but not fast enough. If I were rating this book on how exciting it was, I would not forget to count the number of multiplication I almost fell asleep trying to designate it. But the Crusades have always interested me, so I couldnt give up on the book,The book covers all of the crusades, but it also covers all of the down time between the crusades, which is not interesting to read. I am sure it is very important to know about, but a book should be fun also, considering its written as a story, and not as the Bible. There w ere interesting separate though. Especially During the 3rd crusade, I never learned about the Muslim assassins who played a big part. Also I found it interesting to read more information about King Richard who was kidnapped by The Duke of Austria.Another interesting part of the book was the attitude the author took on the First Crusade. He named the Chapter The bang-up Lords Ride Out. Mr. Duggan portrays the first crusade a lot different than I have been taught in the past. The way Ive been taught about the C...