Dungeon, Fire & Sword: The Knights Templar in the Crusades

by JohnsonJRobinson (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $16.81

  In telling the incredible story of the Knights Templar, the author's clear explanation of the cultural and religious differences among the Templars' enemies and friends in the Middle East gives fresh understanding of the people who populate this restless region. Here are the Sunnies and the Shiites, the Kurds and Armenians, the Arabs and Turks, who figure so prominently in today's headlines. The similarity of their antagonisms today and those of eight hundred years ago are often so striking as to be eerie. Dungeon, Fire & Sword is a brilliant work of narrative history that can be read as an adventure story, a morality play, or a lesson in the politics of warfare.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.25

  Over the past thousand years supremacy has been fought for on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This book recounts the story of the Knights Templar, the Christian warrior-monks who occupied the sacred Mount after the First Crusade. Recruited to a life of poverty, chastity, and obedience, they were dedicated to the pious paradox of killing non-believers, and in-so-doing earning the gratitude of the Prince of Peace. In addition to providing a narrative history of the Knights Templar, the author explains the cultural and religious differences among the Templars' enemies and friends in the Middle East and gives an understanding of the people who populated the area. Here are the Sunnis and the Shiites, the Kurds and Armenians, the Arabs and the Turks, who are in today's headlines.