The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople, (Paperback)

from niklin

Phillips makes good explanation of how the fourth crusade ended up plundering and sacking Christian Constantinople, rather than fighting the infidels in the holy land. Accordingly, the crusade got into a financial despair, due to an expensive contract with the Venetians to provide a fleet and tra...

from gougework

Extremely readable updated history which corrects many of the illusions that the crusaders attacked Constantinople preemptively. Presents narrative from various eyewitness accounts from Venetian, Greek, Latin, French, Noble and Peasant viewpoints

from atiara

I got bored of this and ended up mostly skimming this book. There's no suspense when you know how it all ends.

from CBJames

The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople by Jonathan Phillips tells the story of what went wrong. The crusade began as an attempt to send large numbers of reinforcements to the crusader kingdoms in Palestine to try and recapture Jerusalem and ended up invading several Christian kingdoms ...

from CBJames

The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople by Jonathan Phillips tells the story of what went wrong. The crusade began as an attempt to send large numbers of reinforcements to the crusader kingdoms in Palestine to try and recapture Jerusalem and ended up invading several Christian kingdoms ...