📚 The Crusades

Holy war in the medieval Mediterranean — the expeditions out of Europe, the states they built in the Levant, and the memory left on both sides.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject crusades in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Histoire de s. Louis	Jean de Joinville	1596	61
	Collection des mémoires relatifs à l'histoire de France	François Guizot	1823	25
	The Crusades	Harold Lamb	1930	18
	The history of chivalry	G. P. R. James	1830	17
	The Crusades	Henry Treece	1962	16
	History Of The Crusades	Joseph François Michaud	1800	15
	Histoire de la conqu^ete de Constantinople.	Geoffroi de Villehardouin	1908	14
	The Children's Crusade	George Zabriskie Gray	1870	11
	The Crusade of Richard I, 1189-92	Thomas Andrew Archer	1889	11
	The Crusades	T. A. Archer	1894	10
	Crusader Castles (Hippocrene Insider's Guides Series)	T. E. Lawrence	1936	9
	Conquête de Constantinople	Robert de Clari	1936	9
	A history of the Crusades	Steven Runciman	1951	9
	A history of the Crusades	Steven Runciman	1951	9
	You wouldn't want to be a crusader!	Fiona MacDonald	2005	9
	Crusading warfare, 1097-1193	R. C. Smail	1956	8
	The Crusades	Jonathan Riley-Smith	1990	8
	Heroines of the crusades	C. A. Bloss	1852	7
	Jerusalem And The Crusades	Estelle Blyth	1913	7
	The First Crusade	August C. Krey	1921	7
	The crusades and the crusaders	John G. Edgar	1800	6
	God's war	Christopher Tyerman	2006	6
	The First Crusade	Peter Frankopan	2012	6
	The crusades	George W. Cox	1874	5
	The Crusades	Antony Bridge	1980	5
	Dungeon, fire and sword	John J. Robinson	1991	5
	The Crusades	Malcolm Billings	1996	5
	A concise history of the Crusades	Thomas F. Madden	1999	5
	The Crusades	Geoffrey Hindley	2003	4
	The Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople	Jonathan Phillips	2004	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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