TAMERLANE: SWORD OF ISLAM, Marozzi. Timur, Zentralasien, Samarkand, Persien
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.
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