GENGHIS KHAN: EMPEROR OF ALL MEN by Harold Lamb

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	• Genghis Khan: Emperor of All Men Harold Lamb Amereon Ltd, 1986 average customer review:based on 10 reviews
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highly recommended

History The Way It Should Be Told

WOW! This book brings to life the achievements of a man who had his heart set to conquer! The next time you're driving on a highway on your daily commute to work, look forward into the distance and try to picture how it would've been for an entire army to cross the distance from China to Europe on foot, through deserts and mountains! Forget all about the quick conclusions about "the cruelty of the hordes." That may have been the norm for the dark ages and for times of war. Perhaps Temujin (Genghis Khan) was a greater soul than he is oftentimes portrayed to be. This book is about a leader. It depicts an extraordinary man who had vision, acted on his convictions, inspired his people and led them to victory.

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A swashbuckling historical adventure

Lamb's histories all read more like historical fiction. He piques your interest and keeps it from the opening page to the very end. Although not a scholarly study of the Great Khan, the book informs as well as entertains.

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An excellent read

A brilliant recounting of the life of a dominating figure of the 13th century. I am very surprised that the events of the Genghis Khan are not thought in schools. Due to this disappointing fact, I highly recommend this book to anyone who appreciates large scale conquests and for those who like to study history.

GENGHIS KHAN: EMPEROR OF ALL MEN by Harold Lamb

Genghis Khan: Emperor of All Men is Harold Lamb's biography of the great Mongol conqueror. In the West, Genghis Khan doesn't seem to get half the attention that European conquerors like Napoleon and Alexander the Great did, even though Khan's accomplishments are much more impressive, both in the sheer area conquered as well as the duration of the empire.

Lamb does an excellent job painting Genghis Khan, the thirteenth century warlord, as a survivor, charismatic leader, and brilliant military strategist. The amount of land he took with the number of troops he had is virtually unbelievable. More impressive is that he left something of a dynasty: his sons and grandsons ruled after him without squabbling amongst themselves. Alexander the Great, by contrast, was scarcely in his grave before there was factional conflict.

Lamb's style is a bit dated (the book was originally published in the 1920s). His writing is lacking in punctuation. Many sentence fragments. And he doesn't always have a good flow to his narrative. He jumps around at times and doesn't satisfactorily flesh out certain things. More context would have been nice, as would have more and earlier background on the Mongol religion. But this is a short work, and on the whole, it's is a great introduction to a massive historical figure that is being forgotten by the West.

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