Defending the Crusader Kingdoms

This blog is dedicated to discussing the Crusader Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus. Dr. Schrader holds a PhD in History from the University of Hamburg. For more information visit: http://defenderofjerusalem.com or http://crusaderkingdoms.com

Saturday, February 7, 2026

Demographic Overview of the Crusader States

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The popular perception of the Holy Land in the era of the crusades is one in which a native Muslim population is ruled by a tiny, Christia...
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Saturday, January 31, 2026

Reflections on the Crusader States

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Were the crusader states doomed from the start? Were they inherently nonviable? Most commentators point to the Battles of Hattin and/or L...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

The Templars at the Fall of Acre 1291

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The establishment of the Crusader States in the Holy Land gave birth to the Knights Templar and the fall of the last bastion in Latin Sy...
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Helena P. Schrader
Helena P. Schrader is a former U.S. diplomat, who earned her PhD in Modern History from the University of Hamburg. She spent roughly one-third of her life in Berlin and first explored the pivotal events of the Berlin Crisis 1948-1949 in her comprehensive non-fiction study The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift. Schrader is the author of twenty novels, twelve of which have earned one or more literary awards. Three of her books have also attained "best-seller" status on amazon, including #1 Best Seller in the categories Aviation History and Wartime Fiction.
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