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Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World
Genghis Khan's armies breached the Great Wall of China, captured Beijing, and crushed all resistance in Afghanistan, Persia and Southern Russia by ruthless massacres and pillage. His armies also invaded Europe. Yet until now no historically reliable book about him has been written for a popular audience. This book analyses how Genghis Khan was able to unite the primitive M...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
January 17th 2004
by Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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This is a workmanlike little history of the career highlights of the most unlovable of the Great Captains. Unfortunately, the author has little time for context, psychological analysis or chrome of any kind: this is history by Joe Friday with "just the facts, Ma'am." Even more unfortunate is the author's appalling attempt to forgive Genghis Kahn's unbelievable atrocities (e.g., routinely and literally killing every man, woman, child, fetus, dog and cat in cities which fell to the Mon...more
Genghis Kahn's life makes for a great story and the journey he made to conquer most of the known world is incredible. This book was very difficult to get through. The narration was brutally slow, I am sure there is a better version out there. This one gets out all the points, but It could have been told better.
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