Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy

Name: Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy
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Frank McLynn

Jul 2015 · Hachette+ORM

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"[Khan's] was an extraordinary, epic story and Frank McLynn does it full justice in a vivid, page-turning biography." — The Spectator (UK)

A definitive and sweeping account of the life and times of the world's greatest conqueror — Genghis Khan — and the rise of the Mongol empire in the 13th century

Combining fast-paced accounts of battles with rich cultural background and the latest scholarship, Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols and Genghis Khan's rise from boyhood outcast to world conqueror. McLynn provides the most accurate and absorbing account yet of one of the most powerful men ever to have ever lived.

"With this compelling history of a brilliant, complex leader and ruthless master of warfare, McLynn has done his man proud." — Sunday Times (UK)

"A sensitive and immensely detailed portrait of an extraordinary leader." — The Times (UK)

"McLynn knows the terrain and the times so well that he writes about 12th- and 13th-century history and culture as if it were yesterday." — Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"Sweepingly ambitious and persistently intriguing." — Publishers Weekly

"[McLynn] bring[s] the skill of a seasoned scholar to produce a readable, credible work, usefully illustrated with maps and pictures." — New York Journal of Books

"[Khan's] was an extraordinary, epic story and Frank McLynn does it full justice in a vivid, page-turning biography." — The Spectator (UK) A definitive and sweeping account of the life and times of the world's greatest conqueror — Genghis Khan — and the rise of the Mongol empire in the 13th cent...

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Genji Shimada

March 30, 2017

In page 20 it says "Mongol women a particular source of fascination but read a bit more and i says they were fat, they were ugly. 1 i find that really rude to my culture 2 WTF 3 WHY DID YOU WRITE THIS NOW PEOPLE ARE GONNA THINK THIS WHEM YOU THINK MONGOL WTF 😡😡😡😡😡

About the author

Frank McLynn is a highly regarded historian and the author of more than twenty critically acclaimed biographies, including Marcus Aurelius and Richard & John A graduate of Wadham College, Oxford, and London University, where he obtained his doctorate, he lives and writes in England.

Frank McLynn is a highly regarded historian and the author of more than twenty critically acclaimed biographies, including Marcus Aurelius and Richard & John A graduate of Wadham College, Oxford, and London University, where he obtained his doctorate, he lives and writes in England.

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