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| Author | : Tom Harper |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2010-05-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1407097326 |
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Perfect for fans of Conn Iggulden, Lindsey Davis, Steven Pressfield, this breathtaking and captivating novel brings the Crusades to life in all their triumphant and tragic glory. 'Gripping from the first page, the reader is swept up in this colourful and convincing portrayal of an Emperor and his realm under siege.' - Ink 'Superb read. Thoroughly enjoyed it' -- ***** Reader review 'Highly enjoyable read' -- ***** Reader review 'Brilliant.' -- ***** Reader review 'Holds your interest from [the first] to the last page' -- ***** Reader review ******************************************************************** AN ASSASSIN IS ON THE LOOSE...AND AN EMPIRE STANDS IN PERIL Byzantium, 1096: When a mysterious assassin fires his arrow at the Emperor, he has more than a man in his sights; as the keystone of a crumbling empire, if he falls, then the mightiest power in Christendom will be torn apart. Aware of the stakes, the Emperor hires Demetrios Askiates, the unveiler of mysteries, to catch the would-be-killer. But Demetrios is entering an unknown and mysterious world and must edge his way through a glittering maze of treachery and deceit before time runs out. Nor are all enemies within the city walls. With the Turks rampant across Asia, the Emperor has sent to the west for mercenaries to reinforce his position. When a great army, tens of thousands strong, appears before the gates, he gets more than he bargained for. The first crusaders have arrived, intent on making their fortunes in war, and they have no allegiance to an empire they eye with jealousy and suspicion. As the armies of east and west confront each other, and the assassin creeps ever closer to his prey, Demetrios must untangle the golden web of intrigue which surrounds the Emperor before the city - and the empire - are drowned in blood.
| Author | : Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| Publisher | : United Holdings Group |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 1899 |
| Genre | : Crusades |
| ISBN | : |
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"It is in the very first rank of imaginative and historical romance. The time and scene of the noble story are laid in the middle ages during the conquest of Pagan Lithuania by the military and priestly order of the "Krzyzacy" Knights of the Cross. And the story exhibits with splendid force the collision of race passions and fierce, violent individualities which accompanied that struggle. Those who read it will, in addition to their thrilling interest in the tragical and varied incidents, gain no little insight into the origin and working of the inextinguishable race hatred between Teuton and Slav. It was an unfortunate thing surely, that the conversion of the heathen Lithuanians and Zmudzians was committed so largely to that curious variety of the missionary, the armed knight, banded in brotherhood, sacred and military. To say the least, his sword was a weapon dangerous to his evangelizing purpose. He was always in doubt whether to present to the heathen the one end of it, as a cross for adoration, or the other, as a point to kill with. And so, if Poland was made a Catholic nation, she was also made an undying and unalterable hater of the German, the Teutonic name and person."--Goodreads
| Author | : Mrs. Agar |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 1858 |
| Genre | : Crusades |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 482 |
| Release | : 1899 |
| Genre | : Crusades |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Piers Paul Read |
| Publisher | : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 1997-01-01 |
| Genre | : Adventure stories |
| ISBN | : 9780297818892 |
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A European conspiracy and a fanatic Catholic sect are behind Piers Paul Reads superb new novel-both a thriller and a love story.
| Author | : HENRYK. SIENKIEWICZ |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781033194508 |
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| Author | : Rita Stark |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0595457576 |
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It' s the eleventh century and Islam, born from the sands of the Arabian Desert, has spread from Syria to Spain. Muslims now rule a large part of what was once the Roman Empire. Eude de Châtillon, a monk at the monastery of Cluny, France, does not like what he sees. He leads expeditions to free Spain from its Muslim rulers. When he becomes Pope Urban II, he urges good Christians everywhere to free Jerusalem, and so the crusades begin. As pope, however, he is not able to lead the fight, so he gives authority to Peter the Hermit, a popular priest. At Peter's bidding, thousands of peasants join the crusade, which was named "The Popular Crusade." Fierce battles are fought throughout Spain, the Holy Land, and elsewhere as Christians and Muslims compete for power. The repercussions of this historic struggle are still evident today in the continued fighting in the Middle East; Muslim attitudes about the Western world and memories of the September 11 attacks. Knights of the Cross is the complete report of all the Crusades and a must-read for anyone struggling to understand how religious conflicts of the past have shaped the world today.
| Author | : Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| Publisher | : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 1693 |
| Release | : 2011-04-15 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 1900 |
| Genre | : Poland |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Jeffrey Strickland |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 431 |
| Release | : 2014-07-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1312382139 |
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The story of the Templars is one of the most desolate and obscure in the history of the medieval West: created as a military-religious order to defend the Holy Land. After becoming one of the most powerful and influential institutions of all Christianity, the Temple was put under procedure at the beginning of the 14th Century and then suspended in 1312, because of the serious charges weighed against its members. The last Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, chose to die as a testimony of his innocence, contrasting the guilt of brothers who had been imputed to them, heresy, adherence to an anti-Christian beliefs, corruption of morals, and idolatry. The Templars have been linked with the shroud of Turin, the Holy Grail, and the Ark of the Covenant. None of these can be substantiated. What can be substantiated is that, though arrested, tortured, and burned at the stake, Pope Clement V absolved them from heresy in 1308, as discovered in a secret Vatican parchment in 2001, and released to the public in 2007.
