Genghis Khan: A History of China

di Hui Wang (Autore)

Hui Wang, 2025

Genghis Khan: A History of China, PART TWO, sweeps you across the windswept steppe into the heart of one of history's most relentless lives. From a boy named Temüjin — hunted, exiled, and hardened by rival clans — to the Great Khan who would come to rule vast stretches of the known world, his story is a savage weave of blood, loyalty, and shrewd vision. Along the way we meet his brothers-in-arms and his greatest rival, Jamukha — the man who once called him friend and later vowed to destroy him. Through betrayals, oaths, and a seemingly endless chain of battles, a new order begins to rise from the chaos of the Mongolian steppe. You will ride through The Feast of Betrayal, where trust curdled into treachery, and behold The Battle Between Father and Son, an emblematic trial in which loyalty and power collide. You will stand with Temüjin and his sworn few at The Oath at Baljuna, a desperate pledge of blood and storm that bound them forever. Then comes The Fall of the Naiman, a crushing war that cleared the steppe for a single ruler — and the Birth of the Great Mongol State, when Genghis Khan's name first began to thunder across Asia. From there the narrative broadens, spilling out onto the great stage of empires. The Khan's armies thunder south toward Zhongdu — the Jin capital — where the Jin dynasty staggers under the approaching weight of Mongol horse and bow, and they ride west into the lands ruled by Islamic dynasties, into the markets and oases of Transoxiana. We meet Kuchlug, the shrewd Naiman prince who, after defeat, resurfaced in the courts of the Qara Khitai and for a time seized power in parts of Central Asia, only to be hunted down by the Mongols. We meet Yelü Chucai, the Khitan scholar-statesman who steadied the Mongol court with counsel and law, arguing that brains and taxes could be more useful than blind slaughter. The road to Otrar brings us face to face with Ala ad-Din Muhammad II of Khwarezm — the shah whose mismanagement and mistreatment of Mongol envoys and merchants turned a tense border dispute into a continent-shaking war. Each campaign grows in scale and stakes. The Khan's oft-repeated threat — paraphrased in legend as "If you want war, then war" — stops sounding like mere bluster and begins to read like prophecy. Across deserts and rivers, through smoldering cities and ruined fortresses, he fashions an empire with the same relentless force that levels it: conqueror and creator in one. And beneath the thunder of hooves is a man of contradictory loyalties — a fierce love for his principal wife Börte and for other consorts such as Yesugen and Yesui, and a father pulled between sons as they jostle for the future of a realm that already feels too vast to be kept in a single hand. In "The Khan's Search for Immortality" and "The Last Campaign", the story turns inward. The Great Khan, scarred and weary, stands at his final horizon. His warriors still hail him as invincible, yet even the Son of Heaven must one day answer the call of the Eternal Blue Sky. This book does more than map out how he toppled kingdoms — it lays bare the cost of forging a world that would never forget his name.

• Autore: Hui Wang
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Hui Wang
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9789189998896