{"product_id":"9781781858899-crusaders","title":"Crusaders","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eA history of the Crusades. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Templars\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades is one of the best'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A powerful story brilliantly told. Dan Jones writes with pace, wit and insight'\u003c\/b\u003e HELEN CASTOR. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A fresh and vibrant account of a conflict that raged across medieval centuries'\u003c\/b\u003e JONATHAN PHILLIPS. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Crusades – the sequence of religious wars fought between the late eleventh century and late medieval periods, in which armies from European Christian states attempted to wrest the Holy Land from Islamic rule, and which have left an enduring imprint on relations between the Muslim world and the West. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the preaching of the First Crusade by Pope Urban II in 1095 to the loss of the last crusader outpost in the Levant in 1302-03, and from the taking of Jerusalem from the Fatimids in 1099 to the fall of Acre to the Mamluks in 1291, Crusaders tells a tale soaked in Islamic, Christian and Jewish blood, peopled by extraordinary characters, and characterised by both low ambition and high principle. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDan Jones is a master of popular narrative history, with the priceless ability to write page-turning narrative history underpinned by authoritative scholarship. Never before has the era of the Crusades been depicted in such bright and striking colours, or their story told with such gusto. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eTHE TEMPLARS\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A fresh, muscular and \u003cb\u003ecompelling history\u003c\/b\u003e of the ultimate military-religious crusading order, combining sensible scholarship with narrative swagger' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Dan Jones has created a \u003cb\u003egripping page-turner\u003c\/b\u003e out of the dramatic history of the Templars' PHILIPPA GREGORY. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The story of the Templars, the ultimate holy warriors, is \u003cb\u003ean extraordinary saga\u003c\/b\u003e of fanaticism, bravery, treachery and betrayal, and in Dan Jones they have a worthy chronicler. \u003ci\u003eThe Templars\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful book!' BERNARD CORNWELL. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Told with all Jones's usual verve and panache, this is a \u003cb\u003edramatic and gripping tale\u003c\/b\u003e of courage and stupidity, faith and betrayal' \u003ci\u003eMAIL ON SUNDAY\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is another \u003cb\u003etriumphant tale\u003c\/b\u003e from a historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist' \u003ci\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Templars\u003c\/i\u003e is exhilarating, \u003cb\u003eepic, sword-swinging history\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Jones carries the Templars through the crusades with \u003cb\u003eclarity and verve\u003c\/b\u003e. This is unabashed narrative history, fast-paced and full of incident. Jones tells their story extremely well' \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31964436988001,"sku":"9781781858899","price":12.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27860787.jpg?v=1722106330","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781781858899-crusaders","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}