Crusaders
An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 512 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Verlag: Head of Zeus
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9781781858899

Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades is one of the best... Jones is exceptionally good at giving evocative snapshots of medieval life, sometimes poignant, sometimes pure Monty Python'Sunday Times

The best-selling author ofThe Templarstells the story of the Crusades with page-turning brio allied to scholarly insight.

A history of the Crusades.

'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 FORTHE TEMPLARS:

'A fresh, muscular andcompelling historyof the ultimate military-religious crusading order, combining sensible scholarship with narrative swagger'SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE.

'Dan Jones has created agripping page-turnerout of the dramatic history of the Templars'PHILIPPA GREGORY.

'The story of the Templars, the ultimate holy warriors, isan extraordinary sagaof fanaticism, bravery, treachery and betrayal, and in Dan Jones they have a worthy chronicler.The Templarsis a wonderful book!'BERNARD CORNWELL.

'Told with all Jones's usual verve and panache, this is adramatic and gripping taleof courage and stupidity, faith and betrayal'MAIL ON SUNDAY.

'This is anothertriumphant talefrom a historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist'OBSERVER.

'The Templarsis exhilarating,epic, sword-swinging history'TLS.

'Jones carries the Templars through the crusades withclarity and verve. This is unabashed narrative history, fast-paced and full of incident... Jones tells their story extremely well'SUNDAY TIMES.

GBDan Jonesis theSunday TimesandNew York Timesbestselling author of ten non-fiction books, includingThe Templars,The Colour of TimeandPowers and Thrones. He is a renowned writer, broadcaster and journalist, and has for many years wanted to write authentic but action-packed historical fiction. His debut novel,Essex Dogs, is the first in a planned trilogy following the fortunes of ten ordinary soldiers in the early years of the Hundred Years'War. He lives near London with his family.

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