The Templars av Dan Jones

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Dan Jones narrates in his inimitably vivid and authoritative fashion the remarkable story of the Knights Templar. <b>''Exhilarating, epic, sword-swinging history''</b><i>TLS</i><b>''Jones is certainly an entertainer, but also a fine historian who knows how to render serious scholarship into accessible prose''</b><i>The Times</i><b>''Another triumphant tale from a historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist''</b><i>Observer</i><b>¿When it comes to rip-roaring medieval narratives, Jones has few peers, and in the Templars he finds the perfect subject''</b><i>Sunday Times</i>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 t