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Title: The Northern Crusades by Eric Christiansen ISBN: 0-14-026653-4 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Unknown crusades brought to light
Comment: The crusades against northeastern Europe are far less known than the parallell Palestinian ones, although perhaps of far more historical importance. Between the 11th and 15th century the entire Baltic region grew from an unexplored semi-wilderness into a area of organized, settled states, a growth partly caused by the influx of Western crusaders and partly by the subsequent reaction against this.
Eric Christiansen tells the story of these important centuries without the bias towards one side or another which is typical for other works, particularly when descibing the Teutonic Knights, their conquest of Prussia and subsequent wars with Poland and the Novgorod Russiansand, and has succeeded in writing a book that is both informative and entertaining.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Northern Crusades
Comment: Fantastic, lucid and witty. Mr Eric Christiansen, a fellow at New College Oxford has drawn from years of experience and mountains of ability and as a result is nothing short of remarkable. As a student of history this book had great appeal however even to the untrained eye this book is worth a good read. It is well written but complicated in areas due Christiansen's stress on geographical orgins and expansion. It is a focused study and the reader does not get an overall historical list of the events of the northern crusades. Still considering his intellect and the detail of his other works and translations this is a plausible and readable attempt at a complex area of study
Rating: 5
Summary: No need to read more....
Comment: This was the only book I ever read on Crusades along the Baltic states and after reading this book, I realized that I really don't have to read too much more. This book proves to be very nicely written, well researched and clearly unbias in nature. The writing prose flows very nicely and I was pretty much engrossed by the subject, material and information the book provided. Since it covered a subject matter not well known in the United States, we can considered it as a blessing that there is such a book like this to enlightened us. For any military historians out there, this is a "must have" book for your library.
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Title: Teutonic Knights: A Military History by William Urban ISBN: 1853675350 Publisher: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders by Desmond Seward, Deomond Seward ISBN: 0140195017 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights by Stephen Turnbull, Richard Hook ISBN: 1841765619 Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Fortress 11: Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights (1) AD by Peter Dennis, Stephen Turnbull ISBN: 1841765570 Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Teutonic Knights by Henryk Sienkiewicz ISBN: 0781804337 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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