Tamerlane
Subtitle: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: January 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780007116119
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 500 to c 1500; Travel writing; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 1500 to c 1600; Biography / Autobiography; History: World; ASIA; Historical - General; Islam - History; Military
First sentence: At around 10 o'clock on the morning of 28 July 1402, from a patch of raised ground high above the valley, the elderly emperor surveyed his army.