'There was magic about. Saladin himself was troubled by terrible dreams' Steven Runciman's
unrivalled history of the Crusades is a classic of learning and vivid compelling storytelling
which brilliantly brings to life the personalities battles massacres triumphs and follies of
these epochal events. In this second volume of his trilogy Runciman tells the story of the
foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the disastrous bloody Second Crusade and the
inexorable rise of the crusaders' nemesis Saladin.
