Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- PLATES, MAPS AND FIGURES -- FOREWORD -- Map -- Plates -- PART I Crusading Warfare -- CHAPTER 1 A Primal Social War -- Labels: What You See Isn't Necessarily What You Get -- Societies and Soldiers -- A Primal Social War -- Herders and Farmers -- Push and Pull -- The Pulses of Nomadic Activity -- Primal Conflict -- CHAPTER 2 The 'Eastern Front' of Medieval Warfare -- 'Total War' as a Driver for Crusading Warfare -- Adaptation and Agility -- Strategy -- Tactics -- Doing More, and Doing It Better -- A Different Kind of Army for a Different Kind of War -- CHAPTER 3 Asymmetry and Intensity -- Asymmetry and Risk Analysis: Battle by Accident or Opportunity -- Symmetry and Risk Analysis: Battle by Design -- The Equilibrium of Low- Intensity Combat -- Typical, Not Archetypical -- PART II Crusading Armies -- CHAPTER 4 The People -- The Crisis of Frankish Manpower -- Manpower and the 'Imperialist' Narrative -- Christian Communities: Don't Ask, Don't Tell -- Armenians -- Maronites -- Greek Orthodox -- Syrian Orthodox -- Frankish Settlement -- A Different People: The Population of the Crusader States -- CHAPTER 5 The Soldiers -- Knights -- Squires -- Mounted Sergeants -- Turcopoles -- Infantry -- Mercenaries -- CHAPTER 6 The Frankish Army in the Field -- The Charge -- The Fighting March -- The 'Combined Arms' Infantry Shieldwall -- CHAPTER 7 Frontiers, Castles and Sieges -- Siegecraft: Dialogue and Evolution? -- Crusader Castles: From Impromptu to Impregnable -- The Real Drivers of the 'Arms Race' -- PART III Crusading Enemies -- CHAPTER 8 War with Egyptians -- Army and State -- Cavalry -- Infantry -- Tactical Deployment -- The Battle of Ascalon, 12 August 1099 -- The Expeditions into Palestine, 1101-5 -- The Battle of Ibelin, 29 May 1123 -- Generally Disastrous. CHAPTER 9 War with Turks and Syrians -- The Armies -- The Battle of Tell Danith, 14 September 1115 -- The Battle of Ager Sanguinis, 28 June 1119 -- Ferocious but Fragile -- CHAPTER 10 War with Saladin -- 'Jihadist' Empire? -- The Ayyubid Army -- False Start: The Battle of Mont Gisard, 25 November 1177 -- Interlude: Lessons Learned, Revenge Taken -- The Frankish Response -- The Battle of Hattin, 4 July 1187 -- 'Their Lions Had Become Hedgehogs' -- CHAPTER 11 Endgame -- Labels -- Strategy -- The 'Arms Race' of the Twelfth Century -- This Matter Has Received Its Due -- CHRONOLOGY -- ABBREVIATIONS OF MAJOR SOURCES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies.