Purposes of the First Crusade By Troy Southgate Most people think the crusades were fought simply to free the Holy Land from the grip of the Muslims. However, there were other factors at work in launching the First Crusade. Byzantium, the Eastern Roman Empire, had contrary ideas of what the crusaders were supposed to accomplish. The pope also had certain goals in mind beyond liberating Palestine. The knights and noblemen who led the crusader armies also had agendas of their own… ...
My Revolutionary Life By Leon Degrelle You asked for him and now you got him! Our TBR reader polls showed an overwhelming majority wanted more inside history on WWII and Gen. Leon Degrelle. And now the great Belgian Waffen SS man is back in TBR with his insightful and candid memoirs. Here is one who was there—not some armchair historian following a script laid out by politically correct academic sponsors. In this chapter, entitled Muzzling the Vanquished —the first chapter of My...
