Books like Genghis Khan by Frank McLynn

Jack Weatherford’s Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World traces the rise of Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire, showing how its conquests and governance reshaped trade, technology and law across Eurasia.

After Genghis Khan’s death, his heirs clash for power while Khan Ogedai consolidates control, builds Karakorum, and leads Mongol forces against China, Russia, Poland, and Hungary in a vivid portrait of 13th‑century conquest.

Genghis chronicles the rise of Genghis Khan from tragic beginnings to the murder of his father and his legendary conquests as a feared warrior who conquered much of the known world.

A concise biography of Genghis Khan, tracing how he rose from a small Mongol tribe chief to founder of a vast empire stretching from Peking to the Black Sea during the twelfth century.

"An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule. The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distinguished historian Peter Jackson offers a fresh and fascinating consideration of the years of infidel Mongol rule in Western Asia, drawing from an impressive array of primary sources as well as modern studies to demonstrate how Islam not only survived the savagery of the conquest, but spread throughout the empire. This unmatched study goes beyond the well-documented Mongol campaigns of massacre and devastation to explore different aspects of an immense imperial event that encompassed what is now Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Afghanistan, as well as Central Asia and parts of eastern Europe. It examines in depth the cultural consequences for the incorporated Islamic lands, the Muslim experience of Mongol sovereignty, and the conquerors' eventual conversion to Islam"--Provided by publisher.

106 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.800L Lexile; 800L Lexile

A concise biography of 12th-century Mongolian conqueror Genghis Khan, detailing his rise and the expansive Mongol Empire that stretched from Peking to the Black Sea, with a look at present-day Mongolia.