· Paul Doherty. · Rating details · ratings · 24 reviews. The year is , and Jerusalem is still in the hands of the Crusaders, although the lofty ideals of before have now been replaced by subtle power-play. Meanwhile, in England, King Stephen is waging bloody war against Henry Fitzempress. The Templar Order, now fifty years old, is a wealthy power, glittering with tempting riches/5. In the first in a new historical-mystery series, Doherty explores the founding of the Knights Templar. With the exact origins of the sect unknown, Doherty is free to speculate, and he comes up with a plausible story about the men and women who went on the First Crusade and founded the Templars/5(19). · "The Templar," by Paul Doherty is about the rise of the most mysterious, most famous, and one of the oldest orders of human history, The Knights Templar. The Templar takes us back to the beginning of the very 1st Crusade, when Pope Urban the III /5(4).
The Templar Magician. Paul Doherty has written five novel series' in his writing career, many of which have been extremely successful. One of his extraordinary series' is the Hugh Corbett series consisting of a total of 17 novels published between the years and "Paul Doherty has come up trumps again with this medieval mystery" - Newcastle Evening Chronicle. "Paul Doherty paints a vivid picture of the First Crusade with all its battles, privations, brutality and squalor. You can feel the squelch of the mud, hear the screams and smell the camps along the way. The Templar» by Paul Doherty, published by Headline Publishing Group, Great Britain ISВN ,ДОГЕРТИ Пол Крестоносец.
Focusing more on wartime brutalities than on char-acter development, Doherty fails to bring the past alive with his usual flair. His real-life main characters, French knights Hugh de Payens and Godefroi of St. Omer, the future founders of the Templar Order, engage the reader less than the leads in other of his series such as Hugh Corbett or Brother Athelsan. The Templar (Templars, Book 1): A gripping medieval mystery of crusades and adventure (Templars 1): www.doorway.ru: Doherty, Paul: Books. With the exact origins of the sect unknown, Doherty is free to speculate, and he comes up with a plausible story about the men and women who went on the First Crusade and founded the Templars. After the call of Pope Urban in , Eleanor, her brother Hugh, and his best friend Godefroi set off on the five-year crusade, during which they endure intense heat, dust, and winter rains.
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