'Green captures the brutality and passion of the first crusade perfectly.' Jemahl Evans 1095. Pope Urban calls on the princes of Christendom to free Jerusalem from the infidel. Bohemond of Taranto arrives in Sicily seeking recruits for his force of Crusaders. Ranulph of Erbistock, known as Ironhand, joins him. Bohemond's army is beset by enemies without and dissension and treachery within, but Ranulph becomes one of his...