Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Well-written and well-researched "chronicle" of the two hundred years of the Crusades - which begin in 1095, when - in a meadow in France, near Clermont - Pope Urban appeals for the liberation of Jerusalem and cries out Deus lo volt!, God wills it, and the cry is taken up. As the author mentions, all of the monologues or dialogues in the book are actually paraphrased or condensed from medieval documents. 462 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 1-58243-0659.