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
Dungeon, fire & sword
The Northern Crusades
The new Concise history of the Crusades
Arab historians of the Crusades
Absolute monarchs
The history of the medieval world
The Rise of Western Christendom
Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world
The first crusade
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Persian Fire
Moscow 1812
Napoleon
A World Undone
A History of Christianity
Fall of the Roman Empire
The Punic wars
Waterloo
The Peloponnesian War
In the shadow of the sword
The ghosts of Cannae