Of the of the most amazing and tragic adventures of medieval Europe were those called Children's Crusades, which took place at the beginning of the 13th century. In the first Crusade, a shepherd boy named Nicolas managed to summon seven thousand children, who left with him from Germany and the few children who managed to reach Genoa, on the Italian coast, ended up enslaved or in brothels in that area. The second Crusade began in 1212, when the shepherd boy Stephen of Cloyes announced throughout towns and cities in France that Jesus Christ had appeared to him and that he had entrusted him with the organization of a Crusade of Innocence. According to Pastor Esteban, faced with a pure army of white and innocent souls, the waters of the sea would part in their path (as, according to the Bible, happened to Moses) and the doors of Jerusalem would be opened to them by the Muslims. More than thirty thousand children responded to the pastor's call, starting the Crusade from the city of Vendomê. For two months they toured French lands, where many children deserted or died of hunger. Only a few thousand managed to reach the shores of Marseille, where, two weeks later, a few hundred of them, accompanied by some Crusader knights and clerics, continued on their way to the Holy Land. The novel "Iago, His Last Crusade" is the most faithful description to date of the second of these two crusades known as the "Children's Crusades", and it will seduce you from the first chapter, because it is all a true story. What you are going to read below happened in reality.