The templars
Piers Paul Read reveals the Templars-in their white tunics with red cross over chainmall - as the first uniformed standing army in the western world, as well as pioneers of international banking. He examines their fall at the hands of a greedy French king, who extracted confessions of heresy and imm...
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London
Phoenix Press, a division of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd
2001.
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