Books: God Wills It!

THE CRUSADE s—Harold Lamb— Doubleday, Doran ($3).

In the Year of Our Lord 1095 Pope Urban II made a speech at Clermont. Said he: Let all Christians band together, march to the Holy Land, recapture Jerusalem, from the Turks. Once begun, for more than 300 years the Crusades went on; 2,000,000 men, women, children died because of them. The only really successful Crusade was the first, the one Author Lamb tells about: "... a migration, and a journey, and war. All kinds of people joined the marchers, lords and vagabonds, weapon men...

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