The Templars

I was all excited to read this book; to finally get some details about the mysterious Templars. I acknowledge that the mandate of the Templars was to make war upon Muslims and to protect Christians but I wish the book didn't spend so much time on the war aspect. I wasn't here to learn the play-by-play of the battle tactics and what the opposing historians thought of the other side, I was wanting to know about the structure and workings within the Templars.

The book does tell you that they knew the right people with the right connections, at the right time but then veers off to the battle. It does describe the buildings they acquire/build in the east but doesn't really go into details about the running of them. There are mentions of people but only those that are in the battles.

Another good thing, for a movie geek like myself; before the loan expired I did find out that several of the characters in the movie Kingdom of Heaven were based on real people.