Crusader Castles（ISBN=9780521799133）

　　This is a general account of the history and architecture of Crusader castles in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, County of Tripoli and Principality of Antioch between 1099 and 1291, the years during which the Crusaders had a permanent presence on the Levantine coast. Extensive use is made of contemporary chronicles to show the reasons why castles were built and how they were used in peace and war. The book is fully illustrated by photographs, drawings and plans, and contains a comprehensive bibliography.
　　? A paperback of Hugh Kennedy's highly successful survey of Crusader castles, first published in 1994 ? Illustrated with many photographs and plans, demonstrating the scale and variety of the Crusader strongholds ? Concise and elegant, the book provides a useful summary of a much larger body of literature

1. Prologue to the study of crusader castles
2. Fortification in the east and west before the First Crusade
3. Castles in the twelfth-century Kingdom of Jerusalem
4. Twelfth-century castles in the northern states (County of Tripoli, Principality of Antioch and County of Edessa)
5. Siege warfare in the crusader lands
6. Nobles, Templars and Teutonic knights in the thirteenth century
7. The Hospitallers in Tripoli and Antioch
8. Muslim castles of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Postscript: crusader castles and the west.