Description - Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World by Justin Marozzi
A powerful account of the life of Tamerlane the Great 1336-1405, the last master nomadic power, one of history's most extreme tyrants ever, and subject of Marlowe's play. Marozzi travelled in the footsteps of the great Mogul Emperor of Samarkland to write this wonderful book which is part history, part travelogue. The name of the last great warlord immediately conjures up images of mystery and romance: medieval wafare on desert plains; the clash of swords on snow-clad mountain; the charge of elephants across the steppes of Asia; the legendary opulence and cruelty of the illiterate, chess-playing nemesis of Asia. He ranks alongside Alexander as one of the world's great conquerors yet the detail of his life is scarcely known in the West. He was not born to a distinguished family, nor did he find his apprenticeship easy -- at one point his mobile army consisted only of himself, his wife, seven companions and four horses, but his dominion grew with astonishing rapidity. In the last two decades of the fourteenth century and the beginning of the fifteenth he blazed through Asia. Cities were razed to the ground, inhabitants tortured without mercy, sometimes enemies were buried -- more com
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