- Published: 19 September 2016
- ISBN: 9781784703509
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 688
- RRP: $27.99
Genghis Khan
The Man Who Conquered the World
- Published: 19 September 2016
- ISBN: 9781784703509
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 688
- RRP: $27.99
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
Justin Marozzi, 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
Immensely readable
Gerard DeGroot, The Times
Compendious and thoughtful … McLynn makes a case for Genghis as a brilliant political innovator … McLynn’s narrative is methodical and detailed … its arguments careful
Lucy Hughes-Hallett, New Statesman
A brilliantly entertaining narrative
David Sexton, Evening Standard
Epic history on a grandiose scale and the author sets to his task with gusto … Much of McLynn’s book is rightly taken up with [Genghis Khan’s] remarkable military campaigns, notable for their sadistic cruelty
Mail on Sunday
Even someone who writes as well as McLynn could not make a mass murderer likeable, but he does make you realise just how remarkable [Genghis Khan] must have been
Rob Dex, Irish News
A biography of extraordinary synthesis and historical vision
Literary Review
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
Melvyn Bragg, Observer Books of the Year
McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols, describes Temujin’s rise from boyhood outcast to become Genghis Khan, and provides one of the most accurate and absorbing account yet of one of the most powerful men ever to have lived
Asian Art Newspaper
McLynn has plumbed great depths to produce such a book as this… A very interesting and compelling book, that informs us (in incredible depth) as to the magnitude of pre-planned and executed wars and battles.
Reg Seward, Nudge
In this formidable study McLynn has done his man proud.
Justin Marozzi, Sunday Times