Author: Harold Lamb
Publisher: Bantam 1127 Year: 1953 Print: 1 Cover Price: $
Condition: Good Plus
Genre: Non Fiction/Biogrpahy/History

Genghis Khan was the greatest conqueror the world has ever known. The terror and scourge of civilization – half of the known world trembled under the galloping hoofs of his swift riding hordes.

From a hunted outlaw on the bleak Mongolian plains, he rose meteor-like to rule an empire vaster than any before or since. In the early 13th century, a simple nomad chieftain named Timujin - "Iron Man” – went on to become Genghis Khan, "Universal Ruler", the greatest conqueror ever known - a warrior feared from Britain to the Korean peninsula. He went on to destroy China to provide grazing land for his horses. He defeated the flower of European Chivalry. In one battle his men killed 100,000 Turks. He razed walled towns, leaving smoking ruins.

He made his own “ten commandments” and established a peace by terror so that it was said “A virgin with a sack of gold could ride unharmed from one border of the nomad empire to the other.” Indeed, the barbaric Mongolians were molded into the finest, most disciplined force of mobile fighting ever assembled. The lightning quick movements and encircling tactics of Mongol horsemen baffled opponents – from the Persian Shah to the Muslim Caliphat - time and again.
The couriers of the Khan galloped over fifty degrees of latitude. He moved an army of a quarter of a million men two thousand miles over country a modern army could not possibly negotiate