Download The Templar Knight: Book Two of the Crusades Trilogy by Jan Guillou PDF

By Jan Guillou

ISBN-10: 0061992577

ISBN-13: 9780061992575

“[Guillou] has a notable clutch of the frame of mind of the interval and consistently places the emphasis the place it'd be for the folks concerned at the moment, instead of ours. a few readers could locate that disorienting, yet a potential for irritating readers’ assumptions is much more a trademark of excellent historic fiction than the inclusion of the Knights Templar.”
— Diana Gabaldon, Washington Post

Jan Guillou follows up the hugely acclaimed The street to Jerusalem with the second one ebook in his Knights Templar trilogy. Readers of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden, and Stephen Saylor will locate many page-turning thrills in The Templar Knight.

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I've sensed that there's something you want to talk about in private. " "Yes, dear Cecilia Rosa, you are completely right," replied Ulvhilde, looking all at once as if she were making a brave attempt to hold back the tears. " Cecilia Rosa asked uncertainly. But the answer was not forthcoming. They sat together for a while, neither of them daring to be first to break the silence, although by now Cecilia Rosa had begun to have her suspicions. "The thing is, Emund Ulvbane was my father, blessed be his soul," whispered Ulvhilde at last, her gaze fixed on the limestone floor.

Winter squirrels, marten, and foxes didn't grow on trees, after all. So instead of bringing in silver, the new work ended up adding to the cloister's expenses. The yconomus was finally ordered by a reluctant Mother Rikissa to go to Skara and buy skins, traveling all the way to Linkoping if need be. He whined and complained about the expense. He thought it was risky to lay out silver for something one wasn't certain could be sold, and in any case it would be a long time before the costs could be recouped as income.

Reinforcements began arriving from other fortresses in the country until the forty new knights promised by Jerusalem's Master were in place inside the walls of Gaza. The next most important preparation was to widen the moats around Gaza and reinforce the city walls. The first line of defense would be out there, but if it collapsed the people and their animals would take refuge inside the fortress itself. The 280 sergeants and all the hired civilians, even the scribes and customs men, labored around the clock, using torchlight at night, on this construction work, and the master of the fortress himself made constant inspections of their progress.

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