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Article: The Templars.(Review)
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- Quadrant
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- April 1, 2000
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The Templars, by Piers Paul Read; Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999, $45.
PIERS PAUL READ read history at Cambridge. The commitment to historicity that he made there and his proficiency as a writer of fact and fiction combine in this, his latest book, to produce a deeply researched and highly readable account of the most powerful military order of the Crusades. The story of the rise and fall of the Templars is set against their raison d'etre, the nine crusades (including the disastrous Children's Crusade) which began in 1095 and ended in 1291 with the fall of Acre, the last Christian stronghold in Syria.
The story is one of religious and internecine ...