What to Read After The Crusades
Readers who loved The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Crusades is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Crusades
God's War
1453
Osman's Dream
The new Concise history of the Crusades
The Northern Crusades
Dungeon, Fire & Sword
Arab historians of the Crusades
The History of the Medieval World
Absolute Monarchs
The First Crusade
Greatest Knight
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Persian Fire
Moscow 1812
Napoleon
A World Undone
A History of Christianity
The Punic wars
Waterloo
In the Shadow of the Sword
The Peloponnesian War
The ghosts of Cannae
The Crusades through Arab eyes
Byzantium