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Crusading warfare, 1097-1193

by R. C. Smail

This text is a revised version of R.C. Small's classic account of the strategic and cultural achievements of a society structured and organized to conduct war. This is an important book for several reasons. It deals with a subject that frankly, not many people have a deep knowledge of. It treats warfare as it should amongst the backdrop of contextualizing a society within the continuous warfare that went on for almost a century. This is not popular history but a scholarly analysis.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?