The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (553 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0525428305 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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It is genuinely moving and a chilling contemporary warning about the abuse of power through persecution and lies."-- Philippa Gregory, author of The White Queen“The story of the Templars, the ultimate holy warriors, is an extraordinary saga of fanaticism, bravery, treachery and betrayal, and in Dan Jones they have a worthy chronicler. The Plantagenets’ saga is the story of how English monarchs learned, or failed to learn, how to be kings, and how the English people, commoners and barons alike, learned how to limit their powers.” —USA Today “Jones has brought the Plantagenets out of the shadows, revealing them in all their epic heroism and depravity. There is fine scholarly intuition on display here and a mastery of the grand narrative; it is a supremely skillful piece of sto
Dan Jones is the author of The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queen Who Made England, a New York Times bestseller; Wars of the Roses, which charts the story of the fall of the Plantagenets and the improbable rise of the Tudors; Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty; and Summer of Blood. He wrote and prese
A small group of knights seeking a purpose in the violent aftermath of the First Crusade decides to set up a new order. But were they heretics or victims of a ruthlessly repressive state? Dan Jones goes back to the sources tobring their dramatic tale, so relevant to our own times, in a book that is at once authoritative and compulsively readable.. These are the first Knights of Templar, a band of elite warriors prepared to give their lives to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land. They fought the forces of Islam in hand-to-hand combat on the sun-baked hills where Jesus lived and died, finding their nemesis in Saladin, who