Piers Paul Read: 8 books

Book cover of The Templars

The Templars

The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades

by Piers Paul Read
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014

In 1099, the city of Jerusalem, a possession of the Islamic Caliphate for over four-hundred years, fell to an army of European knights intent on restoring the Cross to the Holy Lands. From the ranks of these holy warriors emerged an order of monks trained in both scripture and the military arts, an...
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Alice in Exile

A Novel

by Piers Paul Read
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014

By critically acclaimed author Piers Paul Read, Alice in Exile is an exquisite historical novel featuring Alice Fry--a free-thinking and independent-minded woman in a world ruled by men--and the two men who love her. It is 1913 when Alice, the daughter of a radical publisher, meets Edward Cobb, the...
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Los templarios

Monjes y guerreros

by Piers Paul Read
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 24, 2014

Un libro que relata la historia de los cristianos en Tierra Santa y de los Templarios, por el autor obtuvo el reconocimiento internacional de los lectores por ¡Viven! La tragedia de los Andes. Alabados por su ascetismo, castidad y defensa a ultranza del cristianismo, denostados por herejes,...
Book cover of On the Third Day
by Piers Paul Read
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017

Archaeologists in Jerusalem make a revolutionary discovery in this “beautifully written” thriller from a #1 New York Times–bestselling author (Ruth Rendell). John Lambert, Catholic priest and professor of biblical archaeology, returns to London from an archaeological dig in Israel—and...
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Alive

The Story of the Andes Survivors

by Piers Paul Read
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016

The #1 New York Times bestseller and the true story behind the film: A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes. Spirits were high when the Fairchild F-227 took off from Mendoza, Argentina, and headed for Santiago, Chile. On board were forty-five people, including...
Book cover of Scarpia
by Piers Paul Read
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

It is the late 18th century and Sicilian nobleman Vitello Scarpia finds himself penniless and in disgrace on the streets of Rome. After leaving his home in pursuit of a military career, his fiery passion has seen him expelled from the Spanish royal guard and left to seek his fortune in Italy; a fortune...
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The Dreyfus Affair

The Scandal That Tore France in Two

by Piers Paul Read
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012

July 20, 1894. The German Military Attache in Paris. Colonel Maximillien von Schwarzkoppen received a visit from a seedy-looking middle-aged Frenchman who would not give his name. He told Schwarzkoppen that he was a French army officer serving on the General Staff; that he was in desperate need of...
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¡Viven!

El triunfo del espíritu humano

by Piers Paul Read
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 10, 2017

Bestseller #1 de *TheNew York Times*: La verdadera historia de un equipo de rugby que recurre a lo inimaginable cuando su avión se estrella en los Andes.** Reinaba el buen ánimo cuando el Fairchild F-227 despegó desde Mendoza, Argentina, con rumbo a Santiago, Chile. Había cuarenta y cinco...
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