Dungeon, Fire and Sword: The Knights Templar in the Crusades (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590771426)

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.

Author: John J. Robinson
ISBN-10: 1590771427
ISBN-13: 9781590771426
Publisher: M. Evans and Company
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2009
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.30d