“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 of Peace. The Templars amassed great wealth, which they used to finance
their two hundred years of war against Muslims on the desert, in the mountains,
and up the broad sweep of the Nile valley. The
Templars' reward for those two centuries of military martyrdom was to be
arrested by pope and king, tortured by the Inquisition, and finally decreed out
of existence. But their legend and legacy just would not die. 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..”
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