The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades by Jonathan Riley-Smith (Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge)
Written by a team of leading scholars, this richly illustrated book, with over 200 colour and black and white pictures, presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today.