The Great Betrayal by Ernle Bradford
A gripping narrative history that recounts how the Fourth Crusade, diverted by Venetian interests and internal Byzantine intrigues, culminated in the infamous sack of Constantinople in 1204; it traces the complex political maneuvers, commercial motives, and acts of treachery that led Christian knights to pillage a Christian capital. The account portrays the chaos, violence, and looting of the city and explains how the establishment of the Latin Empire shattered Byzantine unity and set the stage for centuries of decline in the Eastern Roman world.
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