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 first two or three chapters seemed fine, but not great. Genghis Khan was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. We have a nonfiction tome, but it’s the sort of slog one only undergoes out of desperation, or as assigned coursework. Available in National Library (Singapore). 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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