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

By: John J. Robinson

Price: $6.00

Publisher: M. Evans & Company: Apr-09

Seller ID: 466563

ISBN: 1590771427

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Over the past thousand years, the bloodiest game of the king-of-the-hill has been for supremacy on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the site of the ancient Temple of Solomon. This book recounts the stirring saga of the Knights Templar, the Christian warrior-monks who occupied the sacred Mount in the aftermath of the butchery of the First Crusade. Recruited to a life of poverty, chastity and obedience intended to lead only to martyrdom on the battlefield, they were totally dedicated to the pious paradox that the wholesale slaughter of non-believers would earn the eternal gratitude of the Prince o...
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