A magnificent new biography of the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, based on newly translated sources and the latest scholarship.
Frank McLynn is a highly regarded historian, who specializes in biographies and military history. He has written over 20 books, including critically acclaimed biographies of Napoleon and Richard the Lionheart. Other books include 1066, Stanley, 1759, and Marcus Aurelius. He is a graduate of Wadham College, Oxford, and London University, where he obtained his doctorate.
This powerful and comprehensive study of the great Mongol takes
your breath away with the sheer scale and fury of the man’s
conquests and cruelties. Told with chilling relish
*Observer Books of the Year*
A formidable study of the world’s greatest conqueror. With this
compelling history of a brilliant, complex leader and ruthless
master of warfare, McLynn has done his man proud
*Sunday Times*
McLynn has carefully synthesised the work of hundreds of scholars
to create a sensitive and immensely detailed portrait of an
extraordinary leader
*The Times*
A vivid, page-turning biography
*Spectator*
Fuses classic biography with a colourful study of medieval
Mongolian culture … recounts in detailed, elegant prose the life
and legacy of one of history’s greatest monsters
*Sunday Telegraph*
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