Excerpt from The CrusadersHis is a historical novel despite the fact that to many of my generation e events portrayed here are not history in the sense of retrospect but part their lives and possibly a very important part. But books are not writ for the current year alone, and those about this war will in time assume e color of history.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.