Deus Vult

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - The World Before War
3. Chapter Two - The Call to Crusade
4. Chapter Three - The People’s Crusade
5. Chapter Four - The First Crusade (a.k.a. Beginner’s Luck)
6. Chapter Five - Crusader Kingdoms
7. Chapter Six - The Second Crusade (Oops, Never Mind)
8. Chapter Seven - Saladin Rises
9. Chapter Eight - The Third Crusade (Richard vs. Saladin)
10. Chapter Nine - The Fourth Crusade: Whoops, Wrong City
11. Chapter Ten - Children’s Crusade & the Weird Ones
12. Chapter Eleven - The Last Crusades (Slow Fade to Irrelevance)
13. Chapter Twelve - The Ashes of War

Excerpt

PROLOGUE IT STARTED WITH a speech. But not just any speech. Clermont, France. November, 1095. A chilly breeze. Mud. Priests. Farmers. A whole lot of beards. And then, Pope Urban II climbs a platform and unleashes a verbal nuke. “Deus Vult!” “God wills it!” And the crowd erupts. Men drop to their knees. Others start weeping. Someone faints. Knights rip crosses off their tunics and sew them to their shoulders. And just like that, a continent full of war-hungry feudal lords suddenly thinks it’s doing God’s work. It’s the world’s most dangerous case of religious FOMO. Because here’s what Urban told them: March to Jerusalem. Kill the infidel. Take the Holy Land back for Christendom. And, oh...