The Crusades: Crescent & the Cross

The shadow of war between Christian and Muslim hangs over us today but it is a war that began nearly a thousand years ago. By the close of the 11th century Jerusalem had been in Muslim hands for over 400 years.

In 1099 the Crusaders took Jerusalem in the bloodiest of battles wrenching it back from the Muslims for the first time in 400 years. But over the decades that followed the Islamic world dreamed of fighting back.