Genghis Khan, Cameron White
Genghis Khan, Cameron White
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Genghis Khan
The Ruthless Legacy, Great Mongol Empire, and The Making of the Modern World

Author: Cameron White

Narrator: Jim D. Johnston

Unabridged: 4 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/22/2015


Synopsis

It is rare for an individual in history to have successfully made such a mark on their world that people are still talking about them centuries after their death. When you consider the number of people that have existed throughout the millennia that have wielded some kind of power, it takes a remarkable individual to stand out from the crowd.
Nevertheless, one such individual did manage to achieve this near-impossible feat of attaining everlasting fame: Genghis Khan. This single person from the relative confines of Mongolia is credited with creating one of the most feared empires that ever existed. When you learn more about his story, the very fact that he achieved so much becomes even more remarkable than you may have at first thought.
Genghis Khan was a leader that was ruthless in his aims and ambitions, a man who thought nothing of destroying everything in his path. His reputation of extreme brutality sent villagers running from their homes when they got even a hint that Genghis Khan was coming their way. But is that the entire story? Was he as bad as history has made him out to be?
This was an individual who established an empire that survived for more than a century after his demise, and it did so to such an extent that it was the longest continual empire to have ever been created in the history of the world. A wonderful battlefield commander, a prime tactician, he had a need to conquer the world that shaped this man into a fearless leader that would ultimately go on to shape what we now know as the modern world.
In his book entitled Genghis Khan: The Ruthless Legacy, Great Mongol Empire, and the Making of the Modern World author Cameron White deeply chronicles how Genghis Khan with fierce determination was able to rise from the ashes of the devastation of his early years to become one of the most remarkable and ruthless leaders of all time.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bryn on February 27, 2015

I have severe issues with this book. It's the standard biography of Genghis/Chinggis Khan, and how I wish that wasn't so. On a positive note, it's stuffed full of information. Its most egregious negative: have other people noticed this weird habit? Time and again he writes a paragraph, and at the en......more

Goodreads review by António on July 11, 2023

Best biography of Genghis Khan out there, complete and concrete, very useful information from the begining to the end. Not confusing, and only requiring very basic knowledge of the main names of the Mongol Empire and Genghis's early life, even those ones are explained in pages dedicated to Main Pers......more

Goodreads review by Greg on March 25, 2019

A good and very academic overview of Genghis Kahn.......more

Goodreads review by John on February 05, 2017

A 2.5......more

Goodreads review by Tommy on July 27, 2008

This book was fairly dry and seemed to skip around and have some wholes but that seems to be due to the nature of the book. It's dry because it's a history book. There are some wholes because it's from the 12th and 13th century and records are spotty from then and there is not general consensus for m......more