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YOU ARE BUYING 3 HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION BOOKS about the Knights Templer by JACK WHYTE ;
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KNIGHTS OF THE BLACK AND WHITE : BOOK ONE OF THE TEMPLAR TRILOGY
By Jack Whyte
Published by Viking, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2006 FIRST EDITION First Printing with Printing Number Line 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,
This book is a Large Thick HARDCOVER in fine condition with 548 pages. The Pictorial Dust Jacket in fine condition.
A brother of the Order-a medieval secret society uniting noble families in a sacred bond-Sir Hugh de Payens has emerged from the First Crusade a broken man seeking to dedicate his life to God. But the Order has other plans for him: to uncover a deadly secret that could shatter the very might of the Church itself.
FROM THE COVER == It is 1088. While many French nobles continue their occupation of a violently hostile England, one young knight, Hugh de Payens, is inducted into a powerful secret society in his father's castle in Anjou.
The Order of Rebirth in Sion draws its member-ship from the ranks of some of France's most powerful families, with only one son from each generation eligible to be selected, and its members' loyalty to the ancient brotherhood transcends loyalty to both Church and state.
When the new Pope calls for knights to join his Crusade to redeem the Holy Land, Hugh is commanded by the Order to go along and finds himself in hellish battle in Jerusalem.
Sickened by the slaughter of innocents and civilians and appalled by the savagery of his fellow Christians, Hugh appeals to the Order to allow him and a few of the brother-hood to follow a different path.
Determined to remain true to their own beliefs, they become the Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ, a unique order of fighting monks, and use the skills honed in battle to defend and protect pilgrims on the road to Jerusalem.
But the Order has a different plan, and soon the brethren are charged with an outlandish and dangerous task—a seemingly impossible mission to uncover a treasure hidden in the very center of Jerusalem, a treasure that might not only destroy the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem but also threaten the fabric of the Church itself.
STANDARD OF HONOR : BOOK TWO OF THE TEMPLAR TRILOGY
By Jack Whyte
Published by Viking, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2007 FIRST EDITION First Printing with Printing Number Line 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,
This book is a Large Thick HARDCOVER in near fine condition with 614 pages.
The Pictorial Dust Jacket in near fine condition.
The second novel in the thrilling historical trilogy about the rise and fall of the powerful and mysterious Templars, from the author of the immensely popular Camulod Chronicles.
In 1187 one of the few survivors of the Battle of Hattin, young Scots Templar Alexander Sinclair, escapes into the desert despite his wounds.
Sinclair has learned about the execution of the surviving Templars after the battle, so when he is rescued, he says nothing of his own standing among the Order of the Temple.
Sinclair is one of the Inner Sanctum of the Order-a member of the ancient Brotherhood of Sion, a secret society within the secret society.
Two years after the battle, Sir Henry St. Clair is awakened after midnight by a visit from his liege lord, Richard the Lionheart.
King Richard is assembling an army to free the Holy Land from the grip of Saladin and his Saracens, and he wants Sir Henry,
his first and favorite teacher, to sail with him as his master at arms.
The old man is unwilling to go-he neither likes nor trusts Richard, having found him both a sadist and an egomaniac.
But his future, and that of his young son Andre, a rising knight in the order, depends on his allegiance to Richard.
Sir Henry knows that Andre worships his older cousin, Alexander Sinclair of the Scottish branch of their family, who has been in the Holy Land for years.
Alexander will be an ally in an unfamiliar land.
Sir Henry agrees to go despite serious misgivings about Richard, and his motives for war.
From the moment the first soldiers of the Third Crusade set foot in the Holy Land, the story of the three templars unfolds as the events of the campaign and the political and personal intrigues of the Crusade's leaders again bring the St. Clair family-and the Order-to the edge of disaster.
ORDER IN CHAOS : BOOK THREE OF THE TEMPLAR TRILOGY
By Jack Whyte
Published by Viking, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2009 FIRST EDITION First Printing with Printing Number Line 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,
This book is a Large Thick HARDCOVER in near fine condition (remainder mark) with 662 pages.
The Pictorial Dust Jacket in near fine condition.
The third novel in the thrilling historical trilogy about the rise and fall of the powerful and mysterious Templars, from the author of the immensely popular Camulod Chronicles.
Order in Chaos begins just prior to Friday the thirteenth of October 1307, the original Day of Infamy that marked the abrupt end of the Order of the Templars.
On that day, without warning, King Philip IV sent his armies to arrest every Templar in France in a single morning.
Then, with the aid of Pope Clement V, he seized all the Temple assets and set the Holy Inquisition against the Order.
Forewarned at the last minute by the Grand Master himself, who has discovered the king's plot too late to thwart it, Sir William St. Clair flees France with the Temple's legendary treasure, taking with him several hundred knights, along with the Scots-born widow of a French Baron, the Lady Jessica Randolph.
As time passes and the evidence of the French King's treachery becomes incontestable, St. Clair finds himself increasingly disillusioned and decides, on behalf of his Order, to abandon the past.
He releases his men from their "sacred" vows of papal obedience and leads them into battle as Temple Knights one last time, in support of King Robert Bruce at the battle of Bannockburn. And in the aftermath of victory, he takes his surviving men away in search of another legend: the fabled land, mentioned in Templar lore, that lies beyond the Western Ocean and is known as Merica.
MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR == Jack Whyte === (Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, 1939) is an author and writer born and raised in Scotland, but living in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada since 1967. Whyte's major work to date is the A Dream of Eagles series (as it is titled in Canada, but known as The Camulod Chronicles in the United States and elsewhere).
This series of historical novels presents the tale of King Arthur set against the backdrop of Roman Britain.
This retelling of the popular legend eschews the use of magic (as in T. H. White’s The Sword in the Stone) to explain Arthur’s ascent to power and instead relies on the historical condition (with some artistic license) of post-Roman Britain to support the theory that Arthur was meant to counter the anarchy left by the Roman departure from Britain in 410 AD and the subsequent colonization and invasion of Britain by various peoples from Northwestern Europe, including the Saxons, Jutes, Franks, and Angles).
Whyte incorporates both traditional Arthurian names, places and events (albeit in gaelic or latin form) as well as the names of various historical figures that have been suggested as being the possible basis for the original King Arthur legend.
The tacit implication is that Whyte's version of history is the true story that has become distorted over time to become the legend and stories of magic that we know today.
Jack Whyte served as the official bard of The Calgary Highlanders and performed several tracks of poetry and song on the 1990 album Eighty Years of Glory: The Regimental Pipes, Drums and Bard of The Calgary Highlanders.
SOME OF THE AUTHORS OTHER BOOKS
Camulod Chronicles
A Dream of Eagles (Camulod Chronicles)
The Skystone
The Singing Sword
The Eagles' Brood
The Saxon Shore
The Sorcerer Part 1: The Fort at River's Bend
The Sorcerer Part 2: Metamorphosis
The two volumes The Sorcerer: The Fort at River’s Bend and The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis were written as a single volume entitled The Sorcerer but were split for publication.
Golden Eagle (companion mini-series)
Clothar the Frank (titled The Lance Thrower outside of Canada)
The Eagle
Uther, is a stand alone novel about the life of Uther Pendragon from infancy up until the end of events in The Eagles' Brood. It serves to answer lingering questions left open by The Eagles' Brood that result from the fact that the latter is told exclusively from the perspective of Merlyn Britannicus and as such is not able to explain actions and events of which Merlyn is unaware. In this way, Uther is also an effective companion novel to The Eagles' Brood as it follows the title character and others as they grow up and wage war on Uther's main enemy, Guhlrys Lot, King of Cornwall.
The Templar Trilogy
Knights of the Black and White (Released August 1, 2006 in Canada)
Standard of Honor (Released August 28, 2007 in Canada)
Order in Chaos (Released in August of 2009)
Short fiction = Though primarily a novelist, Whyte has also written and published at least one short story: "Power Play" in Paradox Magazine, issue 8 (Winter 2005-2006), an exploration of the nature of power, set in Roman Jerusalem.
MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR == Jack Whyte === (Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, 1939) is an author and writer born and raised in Scotland, but living in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada since 1967.
Whyte's major work to date is the A Dream of Eagles series (as it is titled in Canada, but known as The Camulod Chronicles in the United States and elsewhere). This series of historical novels presents the tale of King Arthur set against the backdrop of Roman Britain.
This retelling of the popular legend eschews the use of magic (as in T. H. White’s The Sword in the Stone) to explain Arthur’s ascent to power and instead relies on the historical condition (with some artistic license) of post-Roman Britain to support the theory that Arthur was meant to counter the anarchy left by the Roman departure from Britain in 410 AD and the subsequent colonization and invasion of Britain by various peoples from Northwestern Europe, including the Saxons, Jutes, Franks, and Angles).
Whyte incorporates both traditional Arthurian names, places and events (albeit in gaelic or latin form) as well as the names of various historical figures that have been suggested as being the possible basis for the original King Arthur legend.
The tacit implication is that Whyte's version of history is the true story that has become distorted over time to become the legend and stories of magic that we know today.
Jack Whyte served as the official bard of The Calgary Highlanders and performed several tracks of poetry and song on the 1990 album Eighty Years of Glory: The Regimental Pipes, Drums and Bard of The Calgary Highlanders.
SOME OF THE AUTHORS BOOKS
A Dream of Eagles (Camulod Chronicles or Legends of Camelot)
1. The Skystone (published in Great Britain as War of the Celts)
2. The Singing Sword (published in Great Britain as The Round Table)
3. The Eagles' Brood (published in Great Britain as Merlyn)
4. The Saxon Shore (published in Great Britain as Excalibur)
5. The Sorcerer Part 1: The Fort at River's Bend (published in Great Britain as The Boy King)
6. The Sorcerer Part 2: Metamorphosis (published in Great Britain as The Sorcerer)
The two volumes The Sorcerer: The Fort at River’s Bend and The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis were written as a single volume entitled The Sorcerer but were split for publication.
Golden Eagle (companion mini-series)
Clothar the Frank (published as The Lance Thrower in the United States of America, and as Lancelot in Great Britain)
The Eagle (published as The Last Stand in Great Britain)
Other
Uther (published as Pendragon in Great Britain) is a stand-alone novel about the life of Uther Pendragon from infancy up until the end of events in The Eagles' Brood. It serves to answer questions left open by The Eagles' Brood that result from the fact that the latter is told exclusively from the perspective of Merlyn Britannicus and as such is not able to explain actions and events of which Merlyn is unaware.
Uther is also a companion novel to The Eagles' Brood as it follows the title character and others as they grow up and wage war on Uther's main enemy, Guhlrys Lot, King of Cornwall.
British Editions
When the series was first published in Great Britain in 2013 and 2014, the books were retitled as indicated above, placed in a different order, and organized into several sub-series.
The Saxon Shore and the two parts of The Sorcerer became the first sub-series, Arthur the Hero; Clothar the Frank and The Eagle became the second sub-series, Arthur the King; The Eagles' Brood and Uther became the third sub-series, Arthur the Son; and The Skystone and The Singing Sword became the fourth and final sub-series, Arthur the Dynast. The British editions thus came close to reversing the internal chronological and publication orders of the series.
The Templar Trilogy
Knights of the Black and White (released August 1, 2006 in Canada)
Standard of Honor (released August 28, 2007 in Canada)
Order in Chaos (released in August 2009)
The Guardians of Scotland
The Forest Laird (2010)
The Renegade (2012)
The Guardian
(2014)
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New series on Scottish heroes = At a public reading in his hometown of Kelowna, British Columbia, on Thursday, November 8, 2007, Jack Whyte announced that he had, earlier that day, signed a contract for a new series of books on the heroes of his Scottish homeland. Further information has it that the proposed trilogy will be called "The Guardians of Scotland", and will be set in 14th century Scotland during the Scottish Wars of Independence and will feature James "The Black" Douglas, William Wallace, and Robert the Bruce. He'll start the series following completion of the Templar series which is still underway.