Need book recommendation about Crusades

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I’m wondering if anyone knows any good, historically accurate (yes, historically accurate) books on the about the Crusades, from a neutral P.O.V, whether the author is Catholic or not.

Pretty much all the documentaries I’ve seen about the Crusades go “bad Christians, good Muslims,” just the same recycled material that makes me want to vomit. I’m amazed at how prevalent and in-grained the stereotypes of the Crusades are into people’s psyches. Surely someone by now has to have written a book that explains the complexity of the Crusades and not merely repeating religious/cultural stereotypes? Preferably by a sane historian (do they exist?).
 
I heard Michael Coren discuss the Crusades very articulately during one of his talks that was recently played on EWTN. His book Why Catholics Are Right discusses the truth about the Crusades along with other misunderstood aspects about the history of the Catholic church. God bless you!

michaelcoren.com/wordpress/books/
 
Try checking out the works of Thomas F Madden and Jonathan Riley-Smith. To my knowledge, neither of them are Catholic but they’ve written solid, factually-based literature on the Crusades-- all coming from a neutral standpoint. In short, they’ve proven themselves to be sane historians 😉
 
I hope that any crybaby book you read about the Crusades also talks about the Battle of Tours:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tours

Fifty thousand Moslems, already in Spain,

**invaded France ** :confused:🤷

** in 732 A.D. **

:bigyikes::bigyikes::banghead::banghead:

The poor Frankish tribes trying to eke out a living from the forests probably didn’t have a clue who these Moslems were or where they came from.
 
Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades by Jonathan Philips

The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge

I picked them both up based on a review in the Guardian. I thought that both books treated Catholicism fairly.
 
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