Description: TAMERLANE SWORD OF ISLAM CONQUEROR OF THE WORLD JUSTIN MAROZZI HARPERCOLLINS 2004 1st edition. 24 x 16 cm. xxiv + 449 pp + b/w photo plates. HB/DJ Tamerlane was the greatest conqueror the world has ever seen. His armies were irresistible, feared throughout Asia, Africa and Europe. Wherever they rode, death rained down around them like the plague. His very name evokes mystery and romance: the clash of swords on steppes and snow-clad mountains; the legendary opulence of a cruel Oriental despot and the astonishing magnificence of his blue-domed capital at Samarkand. Yet while Tamerlane (1336-1405) ranks alongside Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan as history's most devastating warrior-king, the detail of his life is scarcely known in the West. He spent his early years in Central Asia as a sheep-stealer and petty brigand. By 1370, after a series of cunning alliances, he had seized power locally, but a small kingdom was not enough for the man who aspired to rule the world. In the closing decades of the fourteenth century he blazed through Asia like a firestorm, riding to victory after victory at the head of a ferocious army. Cities were razed to the ground, inhabitants tortured without mercy, enemies decapitated. Towers of bloody heads were his most chilling monuments, terrible warnings to those ready to oppose him. His conquests stretched from Delhi to Damascus, Siberia to the Mediterranean, as one by one the great cities of Asia fell before him. Justin Marozzi travelled across Central Asia to realise his stunning portrait of this complex emperor and explore the vast legacy he bequeathed. Master politician, formidable military strategist and exceptional chess player, Tamerlane was creative and destructive in equal measure, as dedicated to high culture as he was to ruthless conquest. Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World is the story of one of the most remarkable men who ever lived. It is compelling history of the highest order. TAMERLANE SWORD OF ISLAM CONQUEROR OF THE WORLD JUSTIN MAROZZI HARPERCOLLINS 2004 First edition. Tamerlane was the greatest conqueror the world has ever seen. His armies were irresistible, feared throughout Asia, Africa and Europe. Wherever they rode, death rained down around them like the plague. His very name evokes mystery and romance: the clash of swords on steppes and snow-clad mountains; the legendary opulence of a cruel Oriental despot and the astonishing magnificence of his blue-domed capital at Samarkand. Yet while Tamerlane (1336-1405) ranks alongside Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan as history's most devastating warrior-king, the detail of his life is scarcely known in the West. He spent his early years in Central Asia as a sheep-stealer and petty brigand. By 1370, after a series of cunning alliances, he had seized power locally, but a small kingdom was not enough for the man who aspired to rule the world. In the closing decades of the fourteenth century he blazed through Asia like a firestorm, riding to victory after victory at the head of a ferocious army. Cities were razed to the ground, inhabitants tortured without mercy, enemies decapitated. Towers of bloody heads were his most chilling monuments, terrible warnings to those ready to oppose him. His conquests stretched from Delhi to Damascus, Siberia to the Mediterranean, as one by one the great cities of Asia fell before him. Justin Marozzi travelled across Central Asia to realise his stunning portrait of this complex emperor and explore the vast legacy he bequeathed. Master politician, formidable military strategist and exceptional chess player, Tamerlane was creative and destructive in equal measure, as dedicated to high culture as he was to ruthless conquest. Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World is the story of one of the most remarkable men who ever lived. It is compelling history of the highest order. 24 x 16 cm. xxiv + 449 pp + b/w photo plates. Very good + condition. Dust jacket price clipped. Page edges slightly age toned but otherwise like new. Get images that make Supersized seem small. THE simple solution for eBay sellers.
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Author: J Marozzi
Binding: Hardback
Language: English
Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military
Original/Facsimile: Original
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers LLC
Region: Asia
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Year Printed: 2004
