A new edition of the text on Crusader castles and their relation to the military architecture of the West written by T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia). The original text is reproduced without alteration with notes by the author, not included in the first version, and other editorial notes and details.

This is a new edition (the first since 1936) of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to Western military architecture written by T.E. Lawrence in 1910. This volume reproduces Lawrence's text, drawings, and photographs; provides a new introduction, critical notes, and index; and reassesses in light of recent scholarship Lawrence's controversial claim that Crusader castles of the 12th century owed more to castles in the West than to anything the Franks found in the East, and that western military architecture absorbed little or nothing from the Orient before the 12th century.

`This is an important book for anyone interested in the development of Crusader military architecture ... The editorial footnotes are superb, and Pringle's new introduction is worth the price of the book ... In effect, this new edition makes Lawrence's work available for the first time to a wide audience.' Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies