God Wills It!

The First Crusade from the preaching at Clermont to the walls of Jerusalem, following a Norman knight who believes the whole way and a Greek who does not. Davis was a professor of ancient history and built the book from the chronicles of people who were there. This edition carries a gallery of 57 plates bound with the text, among them paintings by Gustave Doré, George Goodwin and Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, with subjects ranging from a Pyrenean landscape to the Flower Sellers of London.