Dungeon, fire and sword

Plot

This book recounts the stirring saga of the Knights Templar, the Christian warrior-monks who occupied the sacred Temple Mount in Jerusalem in the aftermath of the butchery of the First Crusade. In telling their incredible story, 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 Sunnis and the Shiites, the Kurds and Armenians, the Arabs and the Turks, who figure 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 eeric.