On the Crusades

I've started reading Amin Maalouf's The Crusades Through Arab Eyes. As with his classic book Leo the African, Maalouf has a genius for narrative and characterisation, immediately drawing you into quite a complex scenario in 1095. Reading the Arab version of events (Maalouf's account is a stitching together of Levantine scribes writing as the events unfolded) has prompted me to go searching for the Western view (its interesting encountering history from a non-western standpoint first). This website gives a comprehensive western perspective.