The first book in a fiction series about the life of Genghis Khan.
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Deze epische historische sage vertelt over de opkomst van een van de grootste rijken uit de geschiedenis, van de ruige steppen tot het machtscentrum van Azië. Volg de meeslepende levensreis van een charismatische leider die strijdende stammen verenigde en de basis legde voor een uitgestrekt rijk. De serie beeldt meesterlijk de politieke intriges, brute oorlogsvoering en persoonlijke offers uit die het verloop van de geschiedenis bepaalden. Het is een meeslepend verhaal over ambitie, moed en de buitengewone wilskracht van één individu.
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Conqueror - 2: Lords of the Bow
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- 16 uur lezen
'I am the land and the bones of the hills. I am the winter.' Temujin of the Wolves has become Genghis Khan, a man who must unite the most fractious, warlike tribes on earth. He intends to forge a new nation out of the wild plains and mountains of Mongolia. It will be a bloody birth that brings a continent to its knees. For thousands of years, his people have been kept apart by the fortress empire of the Chin, a land of vast wealth and teeming armies. His warriors have only the bow, the horse and an iron discipline born from a land of ice, hunger and death. Stone walls loom over the Mongol riders and Genghis must break the ancient enemy or see his people scattered and his dreams crushed. As well as that ancestral foe, Genghis must reconcile the restless factions among his own generals, mediate between his ambitious brothers and cope with his own reactions to his growing sons. The young warrior has become a victorious military commander: he must now raise his people to greatness. Lords of the Bow is epic in scope, convincing, and fascinating in the narration of an extraordinary story. Above all Genghis Khan continues to dominate the scene as he matures from the young boy of Wolf of the Plains to the great Conqueror.
The third of a new four book series focusing on an important historical event.
Genghis Khan is dead, but his legends and legacy lives on. Now armies have gathered to see which of Genghis's sons have the strength to be khan. As Tsubodai sweeps into the west there is no king or army to stop him reaching France, but Tsubodai must make a decision that will change the course of history forever.
Conqueror
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- 20 uur lezen
Number one bestselling author Conn Iggulden takes on the story of the mighty Kublai Khan. An epic tale of a great and heroic mind; his action-packed rule; and how in conquering one-fifth of the world's inhabited land, he changed the course of history forever.