The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades

from Joe73

Really tells you nothing about the Templars..........I understand that you cannot tell the story of the Templars without telling the story of the Crusades but I am sure there is enough information and research out there to flesh this out a little more and engage the reader on a different level.

from Tara714

I gave this book only two stars because it was not the book I thought it was going to be. After reading the title and description I was basically expecting a biography on the The Templars. Instead what I got was a history of the crusades. It was overly detailed at times and I felt that the author...

from JBD1

More a history of the Crusades than the Templars, I found. Quite a long windup at the beginning, some Templar material mixed in with a general history of the Crusades in the middle, and a bit more Templar-focused in the final chapters. But I thought Read might have done quite a bit more with the ...

from DinadansFriend

Three stars because PPR is a good craftsman, not because I fully endorse his ideas. This book has potted Histories of Christianity and Islam, is short on Outremer & Extramadura, and then good stuff on the trials and the Holy Grail sillies.

from TheDivineOomba

 I suspect this book was published to capitalize on the Da Vinci Code success, but was in the works for awhile. This book is rich in details, explaining the history and the Knight Templars. And pretty much everything you know about them is wrong. First, they were organized to protect Christian Pi...