"Whenever we talk about the Crusades, it is through the accounts of the Crusaders. But there are also those who were invaded by the Crusaders—the inhabitants of those territories. In fact, Amin Maalouf has published *The Crusades Through Arab Eyes* with Jean-Claude Lattès. Here is the other side of the coin! We must acknowledge that the Eastern and Western versions hardly coincide. We have written our own version; meanwhile, they have written theirs. That is why this new history of the Crusades is unlike any other." Alain Decaux of the Académie française. France Inter.