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Piers Paul Read.
The Templars.

Published London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000 reprint (previously issued 1999).
ISBN 0297842676;
ISBN-13 9780297842675.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Butler & Tanner, Frome & London.
Size: 160x239x34mm.
Page count: text xiii,350pp; plates 16pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is noticeably faded on its front and spine, some wear on its edges and corners; pages starting to yellow with age; text appears to be free of marking.


This item £3.50
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Phoenix paperback in print at £9.99]
Weight without packaging: 749g.

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Contents: Temple of Solomon; The New Temple; Rival Temple; Temple regained; Poor fellow-soldiers of Christ; Templars in Palestine; Outremer; Saladin; Richard the Lionheart; Enemies within; Frederick of Hohenstaufen; Kingdom of Acre; Louis of France; Fall of Acre; The Temple in exile; Temple assaulted; Temple destroyed; Epilogue — verdict of history.
Appendices: The later crusades; Grand Masters of the Temple.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 16 pages of plates, colour and monochrome
Maps & plans: 7
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 5pp
Index: yes


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