Highly recommended for those that are interested in this time and place in history in Genghis himself or in military history. I rarely buy books for myself, because I have so many already and have such constant access to galleys that it isn’t necessary yet now and then, there’s a book I’ve gotta have, and that’s how I feel about this series. By the halfway point, however, my mind had changed completely! I found myself online doing image searches for the housing, clothing, and other parts of the nomadic life. I wasn’t even sure if I would read the rest of the series. The second in the bestselling new Conqueror series on Genghis. The first two or three chapters seemed fine, but not great. The brand new novel from the No.1 bestselling author of Emperor, his series on Julius Caesar. We have a nonfiction tome, but it’s the sort of slog one only undergoes out of desperation, or as assigned coursework. I wanted to read this series, or at least the first entry, because although I have read at least something about most of the greatest warriors in the world over time, I had read nothing about Genghis. I figure Mongols know how the name should be pronounced, so I have begun to pronounce it that way, too. One thing I learned in discussion with my spouse, who is a Japanese citizen, is that whereas we from Western cultures pronounce the warrior’s name with a hard G, Asians–including the Mongolian culture from which the Khan emerged–pronounce it softly, like a J. How much do any of us know about Genghis Khan?
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