The Mystery of Genghis Khan: A Historical Novel: Book One

ISBN: 0741434245

Author: Secinski, Wladimir

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Product Description How did a small band of seemingly backward people conquer most of the known world of their time? Wladimir Secinski proposes answers in this historical novel. Mongol success rested on the lifestyle developed in the harsh conditions of the steppe combined with the most advanced practices of the Chinese, and on two outstanding personalities: Genghis Khan himself and his Chinese advisor Yeh-liu Chu-tsai. The novel combines history, ethnography, and political, economic, and military theory with the human factor: greed and lust, generosity and love, ambition and selflessness. About the Author Wladimir Secinski was born to émigré parents in Paris in 1947; lived in the Soviet Union from 1956 to 1972, including a hitch in the Soviet army; and returned to the West in 1972, since which time he has been a journalist and a novelist with a historical bent. He spent much of the 1980s in Afghanistan. He was in Moscow from 1989 to 1995 and now lives in Bulgaria. Currently he is preparing a continuation of the story of the Mongol conquests.