"Remember the days just after 9/11 when many claimed the West was finally paying for its crimes against Muslims during the Crusades? They were wrong – and they weren’t the first to misunderstand what happened during the years of fighting between Christian Crusaders and Muslim soldiers. Rodney Stark’s newest book, God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades, helps explain and dispel several of the most common myths about the crusades – and he has quite a few myths to choose from."
--from the opening of Rachel Motte's review of Stark's book.
I read it in 2009 but didn't review it, so get introduced to the book through her post.
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