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The Fourth Crusade 1202-04: The betrayal of Byzantium (Campaign) Paperback – August 23, 2011

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Product Details

  • Series: Campaign (Book 237)
  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Osprey Publishing; First Edition edition (August 23, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849083193
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849083195
  • Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 0.3 x 9.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Perfect Reading for Would-be Vandals and Arsonists
By R. A Forczyk VINE VOICE on September 23, 2011
Format: Paperback
In The Fourth Crusade 1202-04: The Betrayal of Byzantium, Mideast scholar David Nicolle continues his coverage of the Crusades in Osprey's Campaign series. If you've read his previous work, Nicolle's books tend to be deep in cultural implications and pathos and light on military detail, and this addition to the series is no different. It does not bog down on cultural diversions, as some of his earlier titles. Normally I'm a supporter of the Crusades - it was a time when we were all more religious and had less time for endless meetings - but in this addition, it is not Crusader vs. Muslim but Crusader vs. clueless Byzantine insiders. I found this to be one of Nicolle's better Medieval titles, even though it is primarily a story of mindless vandalism, rather than force-on-force warfare. As noted, the military content of this volume is light, but the story of the Fourth Crusade is just as much about political intrigue as it is about warfare. Overall, this volume adds to the series' coverage of the Crusades and is useful for readers interested in Medieval power politics.

The author kicks off the volume with a lengthy introduction that outlines the political milieu that influenced the Fourth Crusade: the relationship between Byzantium and its neighbors, relations between Venice and the Western Crusader states, and the weakness of the Byzantine Empire. The 5-page section on opposing commanders is fairly detailed, with 8 capsule biographies. The 12-page section on opposing forces is the weakest part of the volume, with virtually no useful detail. The composition of the Crusader force is barely mentioned and only later, in the actual campaign narrative, as roughly 13,000 troops.Read more ›
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A decent succinct introduction that just cuts the surface
By Yoda on November 15, 2011
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Any review of this book should start by making clear that books in this series published by Osprey are only meant to be very brief introductions that only scratch the surface. Considering the fact they are only about 96 pages in length, about a third of which consists of illustrations involving maps, battle dress, etc., this is to be expected. If one is looking for a more in-depth analysis of this campaign one should, instead, read Jonathan Phillip's "The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople" or the event he relevant chapters from acclaimed books on the Byzantine Empire such as Vasiliev's classic two volume "History of the Byzantine Empire".

With respect to Dr. Nicol and Hook's book, it follows the standard format for the Osprey Campaign series. It starts off with an introduction to the two side's armies and their motivations. It also follows the political intrigues in the Byzantine state that lead to a pretender found and supported by Venice in its attempt to conquer Constantinople. The book then follows the crusade from its start in Venice to its arrival in Constantinople along with the Venetian intrigue that went into diverting this fleet from its final destination of the Holy Land to Constantinople. The book then goes into the actual battle whereby the "Latins" eventually conquered the city, including the political infighting within the Byzantine state that was so very important to its defeat. The book concludes with the after effects on the conquest Byzantine on the history of the region.

All and all, for an introduction, not a bad introduction to this campaign.Read more ›
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Basic but problematic introduction
By JPS TOP 500 REVIEWER on October 28, 2012
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This Osprey campaign book is, as another reviewer put it, merely an introduction to the Fourth Crusade and there are indeed a host of "bigger and better books" on the topic, with a large number of them having been issued in 2004-2005 to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the sack of Constantinople. There are accordingly a number of glitches and problems due to size constraints. This, however, does not explain all of the problems that this volume has.
As another reviewer mentioned on another book - one of the "bigger and better ones" - any book on this controversial topic has to address and answer at least three fundamental questions. These are:
- Why did the Crusade end up in Constantinople instead of attacking Egypt?
- How were the Crusaders and their small army able to conquer Constantinople?
- Why was the sack of Constantinople particularly brutal, even by medieval standards?

One of the merits of this little book is to attempt to find some middle ground between the two extreme theories that historians have developed to explain one of the most shameful events of the Middle Ages, and of the Crusades in particular: the storming and sacking of the capital city of the Byzantine Empire by fellow-Christians and the sharing out of the spoils, both riches and lands, of the Empire.

The traditional explanation was that of collusion between the Venetians and the Crusaders, with Pope Innocent III as an accomplice, to take over the declining and weakened Empire. This is what we call today a conspiracy theory and it was debunked and refuted by Donald Queller and Thomas Madden in their book on the Fourth Crusade as of 1978 (and again in the second edition in 1997).Read more ›
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