What do we know about the crusaders? When you hear the word “crusader,” a knight in armor on a horse, with a shield and sword, in a cape with the image of a cross appears in your mind’s eye. This is how we see the crusaders in numerous films, this is how they appear to us on the pages of novels. But in order to get a more objective idea of the past, you need to turn not to films, but to historical documents, historical books. The pages of this book, without artistic embellishment, tell about the crusaders and crusades. The authors will try to explain who they were, these metal-clad warriors. What drew them to long campaigns, known in history as the Crusades.