Praised for their asceticism, chastity and uncompromising defense of Christianity, reviled as heretics, sodomites and traitors can sell the Holy Land to Muslim infidels, inspired the creative genius of Wagner from Parsifal and Walter Scott in Ivanhoe, the Knights Templar formed one of the most feared and powerful army of history. Flaunting their ability to capture the events of the past, the historian and novelist Piers Pauls Read offers an exciting chronicle in which separates fact and fiction, recounting in detail the rise and decline of the warrior monks in their political and social context.
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