Genghis Khan
His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy

If you look at how long it took me to get through this - three weeks (a long time for a 500-pager) - you might conclude that it's a slow read. And it is. Or rather, it is in places. As mentioned by other reviewers, it's the amount of information McLynn includes that often holds up the narrative. But......more

A Great Man in History? I found this book very readable, informative and clear. It offers a straight forward narrative cradle to the grave, from Temujin to Genghis Khan. The book starts with the world Temujin, the son of a chief of a Mongol tribe, was born in, focusing on the steppe, Mongol culture a......more

Here's the thing: if you title this thing "Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered The World", you're setting up expectations in the reader that this book will be about the person. I get that ancient history and the people within it are hard to write about, for a variety of reasons, but just call it "Ge......more

very readable flowing like a novel; while presenting the general (and generally well known facts) story and continuing a few decades beyond the death of Gengis with an outline of what happened with the Mongol Empire until its split in 4 essentially different states, the book is very clear and articu......more

Took me a while but when I came back to it I sped through it. Surrender or die was the option the Mongols gave their opposition. Surprisingly, if a town or city surrendered and paid tribute the Mongols didn’t slaughter everyone. However, any opposition or killing of envoys then normally noone was sp......more