Tamerlane
Subtitle: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: February 22, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780306814655
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 500 to c 1500; Historical - General; Asia - History; Biography And Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Medieval; Military; Asia - General; ASIA; Biography; Conquerors; Kings and rulers; Mongols
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.