The Knights Templar were the wealthiest,most powerful - and most secretive - of the military orders that flourished in the crusading era.
Their story - encompassing as it does the greatest international conflict of the Middle Ages,a network of international finance,a swift rise in wealth and influence followed by a bloody and humiliating fall - has left a comet's tail of mystery that continues to fascinate and inspire historians,novelists and conspiracy theorists.
A gripping popular history of one of the most storied and misunderstood organizations of the medieval period. Best-selling historian Dan Jones is ideally suited to tell the incredible story of the Templars rise and fall.
A bestselling author,television presenter and award-winning journalist,Dan Jones is the author of popular history books including The Hollow Crown and A Realm Divided.
'Anyone who has read Jones's earlier medieval chronicles,The PlantagenetsandThe Hollow Crown,will know what to expect here: fast-paced narrative history depicted with irresistible verve,bloody battle scenes and moments of laugh-out-loud wit. This is another triumphant tale from a historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.'- The Guardian
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781781858929Number of pages: 512Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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'Exhilarating,epic,sword-swinging history...A skilful storyteller (...) he enlivens the narrative with bloodcurdling details and arresting turns of phrase...There is also fine scholarly intuition'-TLS.
'Jones carries the Templars through the crusades with clarity and verve. This is unabashed narrative history,fast-paced and full of incident...Jones tells their story extremely well'-The Sunday Times.
'A fresh,muscular and compelling history of the ultimate military-religious crusading order,combining sensible scholarship with narrative swagger,featuring a cast of exuberantly monstrous sword-swingers spattering Christian and Islamic blood from Spain to Jerusalem'- Simon Sebag Montefiore,author of Jerusalem: The Biography.
'Dan Jones has created a gripping page-turner out of the dramatic history of the Templars,from their spiritual warrior beginnings until their tragic destruction by the French king and the pope. 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 Templars is a wonderful book!'- Bernard Cornwall,author of The Last Kingdom.
'Fast-paced narrative history depicted with irresistible verve,bloody battle scenes and moments of laugh-out-loud wit...This is another triumphant tale from a historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist'-Observer.
'A fascinating story of fanaticism...Jones is certainly an entertainer,but also a fine historian who knows how to render serious scholarship into accessible prose. Seldom does one find serious history that is so easy to read'-The Times.
'Jones's latest book is a great deal better than merely sane (thanks to the) wide-ranging and thorough research'-Literary Review.
'A history of the Templars is necessarily also one of the crusades - which Jones cannily makes topical'-The Spectator.
'Snappy,well-paced...The author's ambition,he says,is to tell the story of the Templars in a straightforward way and "to write a book that will entertain as well as inform". He has done precisely that'-Daily Telegraph.
'A pacey narrative history laced with tales of blood and bravery'-The Times
'Jones attempts to separate fact from fiction in his usual entertaining style'-BBC History.
'Exhilarating,epic,sword-swinging history...A skilful storyteller whose psychological portraits of the unforgettable characters allow them to spring from the page he enlivens the narrative with bloodcurdling details and arresting turns of phrase...there is also fine scholarly intuition'-TLS.
'Told with all Jones's usual verve and panache,this is a dramatic and gripping tale of courage and stupidity,faith and betrayal'-Mail on Sunday.
'A no-nonsense account of the Catholic military order'-Guardian.
'Mixing serious scholarship with tales of bloody battle,triumph and betrayal,it's superb'-Saga.
'When it comes to rip-roaring medieval narratives,Jones has few peers,and in the Templars he finds the perfect subject'-The Sunday Times History Books of the Year.
'This captivating history charts (the Templars') rise and spectacular fall'-Tatler
Dan Jones
An award-winning historian,journalist and television presenter Dan Jones work includes The Plantagenets,The Wars of the Roses,and The Templars. His latest book is The Colour of Time,a ground-breaking fusion of art and history with images by pioneering Brazilian artist Marina Amaral.
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