From the bestselling author of The Templars . 'Voyages battles sieges and slaughter: Dan
Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades is one of the best' SUNDAY TIMES .
'A powerful story brilliantly told. Dan Jones writes with pace wit and insight' HELEN CASTOR.
'A fresh and vibrant account of a conflict that raged across medieval centuries' JONATHAN
PHILLIPS. Dan 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. From 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. Dan 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. PRAISE FOR
THE TEMPLARS : 'A fresh muscular and compelling history of the ultimate military-religious
crusading order combining sensible scholarship with narrative swagger' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE.
'Dan Jones has created a gripping page-turner out of the dramatic history of the Templars'
PHILIPPA GREGORY. 'The story of the Templars the ultimate holy warriors is an extraordinary
saga of fanaticism bravery treachery and betrayal and in Dan Jones they have a worthy
chronicler. The Templars is a wonderful book!' BERNARD CORNWELL. 'Told with all Jones's usual
verve and panache this is a dramatic and gripping tale of courage and stupidity faith and
betrayal' MAIL ON SUNDAY . 'This is another triumphant tale from a historian who writes as
addictively as any page-turning novelist' OBSERVER . ' The Templars is exhilarating epic
sword-swinging history ' TLS . 'Jones carries the Templars through the crusades with clarity
and verve . This is unabashed narrative history fast-paced and full of incident... Jones tells
their story extremely well' SUNDAY TIMES .
