An interesting account of the first Crusade and the first years of the Kingdom of Outremer. The biases are obvious, events are seen from the position of Tancred eventual, prince of Gallilee, his uncle Bohemnd of Taranto, Princwe of antioch, and of the head of their house, Robert, the Duke of normandy. However there is an interesting discussion of the conflict over the plunder of the Dome of the rock, between Tancred, whose men had taken that site, and the Papal Legate Adhemar of le Puy, who wished for as much of the contents as possible, as part of the holy site. The book therefore has value for those wishing a different picture than that of williaam of tyre, or the other Crusading accounts. ( )