Hartog Leo de. Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World

London; New York: Palgrave Macmillan; I.B. Tauris, 2004. — ix, 230 с. — ISBN: 1-86064-972-6.Genghis Khans armies breached the Great Wall of China, captured Beijing, and crushed all resistance in Afghanistan, Persia and Southern Russia by ruthless massacres and pillage. His armies also invaded Europe. Yet until now no historically reliable book about him has been written for a popular audience. This book analyses how Genghis Khan was able to unite the primitive Mongol tribes of the harsh Siberian steppes and organize them into highly mobile and disciplined troops. It shows how he created a regime so strong that his son was able to extend the conquests after the death of Genghis Khan himself. Leo de Hartog pays particular attention to the little-studied Mongol invasion of Europe and explores Europe's contacts with the great Khan.Mongolia on the eve of the birth of Asia’s greatest son
Geography and climate
The tribes
Mongol society
The rise of a young chief of the Borjigins
The emergence of an obscure tribe
The beginning of the elimination process
Ruler of all tribes living in felt tents
The final overthrow of the Ong-Khan
West Mongolia yields to the new master
Power and suspicion
The Yasa: Genghis Khan’s code of laws
The Mongol army
Organization
The Mongol cavalryman and the method of warfare
The strength of the Mongol army
The rapacious barbarians at China’s northern frontier
The art-loving Sung buy peace
A careful beginning: the attack on Hsi-Hsia
The war without an end
Victor and vanquished
The prelude
The rise of the Khwarazm shahs
Contacts between the ruler of the west and the ruler of the east
The 'liberation' of east Turkestan
0g6dei, the successor to the throne
The hurricane from the east
A giant with feet of clay
Transoxiana overrun
The pursuit of Sultan Muhammad I1
The destruction of the work of centuries
The great raid
The cavalcade of terror
The first Mongol invasion of Russia
After the storm
The world conqueror and the mountain savage
A broken world left behind
The last campaign
The world conqueror and his empire
The world conqueror
The empire
In the footsteps of the father
The inheritance
The new ruler
The reconquest of Persia and Caucasia
The war in China continues
The martyrdom of the Korean people
The Mongol invader in Europe
The end of the old Russia
Central Europe on the edge of the abyss
The return to Mongolia
The last phase of unity
'Toregene was a very shrewd and capable woman'
The apostolic nuncio
Twilight of the Ögödeids