I recently finished Warriors of God. The book documents the Third Crusade from Richard Lionheart's and Saladin's point of view. It becomes a clash of military titans, highly capable in the medieval paradigm of chivalry, total war, brutality and politics. The book enjoys the mythical nature of the two characters from the occident and orient and rather than a clash of cultures and religion it became a harmony of chivalry and royal graciousness.
Ultimately however Saladin kept his army together and unified longer then Richard, which was why the Muslims kept Jerusalem even when the Christian army could have taken it. (more)
